osmics, n. pl. (const. as sing.)
(ˈɒzmɪks)
[f. Gr. ὀσµή smell, odour: see -ic 2.]
The branch of science concerned with odours and the sense of smell.
| 1922 J. H. Kenneth Osmics 3 Osmics..is a convenient term to connote that area of the field of science which is concerned with smell... Briefly, osmics is the science of the stimuli, organs, and the sense of smell. 1965 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. XXX. 635/1 It must surely be conceded that the science of osmics has come of age with the recognition of its modulating psychophysical principle as being related to the sizes and shapes of volatile molecules. |