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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychophysiology > Sensation > Taste
Psychological Phenomena > Psychophysiology > Sensation > Taste
... > Natural Science Disciplines > Biological Science Disciplines > Physiology > Psychophysiology > Sensation > Taste
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena > Nervous System Physiological Phenomena > Sensation > Taste

Preferred term

Taste  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Gustation
  • Gustations
  • Senses, Taste
  • Sense, Taste
  • Taste Sense
  • Taste Senses

Note

  • differentiate from TASTE PERCEPTION: TASTE takes place in the mouth, TASTE PERCEPTION takes place in the brain

Scope note

  • The ability to detect chemicals through gustatory receptors in the mouth, including those on the TONGUE; the PALATE; the PHARYNX; and the EPIGLOTTIS.

In other languages

  • maku

    Finnish

  • maut
  • perusmaku
  • perusmaut
  • Smak

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013649

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