Olfactory Mucosa
"Olfactory Mucosa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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That portion of the nasal mucosa containing the sensory nerve endings for SMELL, located at the dome of each NASAL CAVITY. The yellow-brownish olfactory epithelium consists of OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; brush cells; STEM CELLS; and the associated olfactory glands.
| Descriptor ID |
D009831
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A04.531.520.573 A04.760.600.640 A09.531.623 A10.615.550.760.600.640
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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