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The parts of the cerebral cortex which receive information about smell. The portion of the cerebral cortex concerned with the sense of smell. It includes the piriform lobe and the hippocampal formation.  

The end of the olfactory tract, where the processes of the sensory cells in the nose are linked to the fibres of the olfactory nerve. An anterior enlargement of the olfactory tract. The enlargement located at the termination of each olfactory nerve, responsible for the sense of smell. These bulbs are situated on the underside…

Containing or resembling oil.  

In a way that is approved by an authority.  

Any drug listed in the national pharmacopoiea.  

Accepted or permitted by an authority. Constituting an authority. Said of medicines authorized as standard in the U.S. Pharmacopeia and in the National Formulary.  

Synthetic oestrogen used to treat conditions which develop during menopause.  

A placental hormone with oestrogenic properties, found in the urine of pregnant women.  

A type of oestrogen secreted by an ovarian follicle, which stimulates the development of secondary sexual characteristics in females at puberty. The name given to the oestrogenic hormone secreted by the ovarian follicle. Oestradiol is responsible for the development of the female sexual characteristics, of the breasts, and partly of the changes that take place in…