| id | GO:0007608 Detailed information
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| name | sensory perception of smell
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "The series of events required for an organism to receive an olfactory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. This is a neurological process." [GOC:ai, http://www.onelook.com/]
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| synonym | "olfaction" EXACT []
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| synonym | "scent perception" EXACT []
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| synonym | "sense of smell" EXACT []
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| synonym | "smell perception" EXACT []
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| xref | Wikipedia:Olfaction
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| is_a | GO:0007606 ! sensory perception of chemical stimulus
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