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osmatic, a.|ɒsˈmætɪk|
[ad. F. osmatique (P. Broca 1878, in Revue d'Anthropologie VII. 397), f. Gr. ὀσµή smell + -atic.]
Having well-developed olfactory organs and a good sense of smell; cf. macrosmatic a., microsmatic a. So ˈosmatism, the degree of development of the olfactory organs.
1890W. Turner in Jrnl. 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, which possess a well-developed rhinencephalon with a keen sense of smell, and anosmatic mammals, in which the rhinencephalon and olfactory sense are either feeble or not developed at all. 1903Amer. Anthropologist V. 638 The related doctrines that the olfactory organs are large in osmatic, small or absent in anosmatic animals. 1903Trans. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) VIII. 369 The size of the hippocampal formation does not seem to vary directly..with the degree of osmatism. |