Letter O

Olfactory bulb

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A key part of the olfactory apparatus consisting of a bulbous enlargement of the end of the olfactory nerve on the under surface of the frontal lobe of each cerebral hemisphere just above the nasal cavity.

Called also Morgagni's tubercle

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