olfact or (olfaktor)

[L. as if * olfact or (cf. fem. olfactriz ), one who smells, olfacere, smell: see olfact.] The organ of smell; the nose. [Rare.] If thy nose, Sir Spirit, were anything more than the ghost of an olfact or , I would offer thee a pinch [of snuff]. Southey . olfactory (ol-fak'tō-ri), a. and n. [= F. olfac toire = Sp. Pg. olfatorio = It. olfattorio, bone through numerous minute foramina, and ramify ing through the Schneiderian mucous membrane of the nose. Also olfactive. See cuts under Elasmobranch i i, encephalon, nasal, and Petromyzontida. - Olfactory angle, in an at., the angle formed with the basicranial axis by the plane of the cribriform plate. - Olfactory bulb. See bulb.- Olfactory crus, the rhinocaul. - Olfactory fo ramina. foramen. Olfactory glomeruli. See glomerulus.-Olfactory lobe. See lobe, and cuts under brain, optic, and sulcus. - Olfactory pits. See pit. -01factory tuber. See tuber. - Olfactory tubercle. Same as caruncula mammillaris (which see, under caruncula ). II. n.; pl. olfactories (-riz). The organ of smell; the nose as an olfactory organ: usually in the plural. [Colloq.]