non-olfactory, a. Biol.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɒlˈfakt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌnɑnɑlˈfækt(ə)ri/, /ˌnɑnoʊlˈfækt(ə)ri/, /ˌnɑnɑlˈfækdəri/, /ˌnɑnoʊlˈfækdəri/
[‹ non- prefix + olfactory adj.]
That does not involve or relate to the sense or organs of smell.
| 1901 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 35 444 The olfactory and non-olfactory parts of the hemisphere. 1910 Science 7 Jan. 15/1 The rest of the cortex, or neopallium, is in these animals differentiated dorsally between these two masses and serves chiefly for the correlation of non-olfactory reactions. 1972 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 133 37/1 The mammalian nasal fossa is composed of rostral non-olfactory and caudal olfactory portions. 2000 Memory & Cognition 28 957 Two paired-associate memory experiments were conducted to investigate verbal coding in olfactory versus nonolfactory cognition. |