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anosmatic, a. Zool.|ˌænɒzˈmætɪk|
[ad. F. anosmatique (coined by P. Broca 1878, in Revue d'Anthropologie 2nd Ser. II. 398): see an- 10, osmatic a.]
Lacking olfactory organs and, consequently, a sense of smell. Also, = *anosmic a.
1890Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. XXV. 106 He [sc. Broca] has classified the Mammalia, in relation to the magnitude of their olfactory apparatus, into two groups: osmatic mammals..and anosmatic mammals. 1970W. B. Yapp Introd. Animal Physiol. (ed. 3) vi. 206 A few [mammals], such as the toothed whales, have no olfactory organ and are termed anosmatic. 1978Jrnl. Compar. Physiol. A. CXXVIII. 303/1 Pigeons made anosmatic by inserting plastic tubes in their nostrils were tested from familiar and unfamiliar release sites. 1986Anat. & Embryol. CLXXIII. 291/2 In toothed whales and dolphins, which are anosmatic animals, the vomeronasal organ does not occur at all. |