monorhinicadj.

1892 Science 2 Dec. 320/1 The nose in the Monorhinic ancestor of the Vertebrates was the organ which we know as the Pituitary Body.

1917 Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. 2 436 The monorhinic, or one-nostril, method, with the other nostril held closed by the finger, was preferred to the dirhinic, or two-nostril, because with it, the stream of air has a greater force.

1922 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 33 542 Another O was rejected because of monorhinic olfaction, due presumably to partial obstruction of one of the nasal passages.

1977 Science 25 Feb. 796/3 The subject inhaled through a monorhinic nosepiece placed at the upper port.

1980 Nature 20 Mar. 256/1 Figures 1 and 2 reveal a fundamental similarity between the physical (monorhinic) and dichorhinic mixtures.