Sentences with phrase «sense of smell as»

Tobacco Project appeals to the sense of smell as well as sight, and Xu Bing is conscious of permeating the gallery with the rich, sweet odor of tobacco.
Lost dogs find their way home by smelling and since a sight hound does not have as keen a sense of smell as other breeds, a Greyhound that runs 40 miles per hour will be a long way away in a short period of time and may not be able to find his way home and back to his loved ones.
The otterhound is known for having an exceptional sense of smell as well as a rough shaggy coat.
Dogs tend to see with their noses, and they place as much importance on their sense of smell as we humans place on our sense of vision.
Both dogs and cats «see» the world through their sense of smell as much, or more so than their sense of vision.
Humans don't rely on the sense of smell as much as other animals do, so maybe it isn't surprising that people don't make new odor - sensing cells, says study author Jonas Frisén, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The Red Cross used Schnauzers for guard duty during World War I. Police departments rely on their keen senses of smell as well.

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Did it make any sense to treat claims about Clinton and Obama being literal, sulphur - smelling demons with the same kind of objectivity as allegations about email use?
Stark: Metaphors an the sense of the stuff we heard about in high school, such as «smell metaphors,» and «touch metaphors,» and so on.
As his patients suffer from bizarre afflictions like Tourette Syndrome, anosmia (loss of the sense of smell), and deficient proprioception (the ability to sense one's own body), there is an unmistakable «freak show» appeal to the book.
«Senses is normally the hearing (listening), seeing (reading), touching (feeling), tasting, smelling» See, I read that sura as praising farmers who were «sensible» enough to use shrewd means of irrigation.
Senses is normally the hearing (listening), seeing (reading), touching (feeling), tasting, smelling and those have a role in creating ones back mind to think and come out with a conclusion of an idea through which he becomes to find out and work out a way to personalize as your own experiment or experience.
As we age, our taste buds stop regenerating, and our sense of smell dulls.
By the time most of us are 80, it's as if we don't even have a sense of smell, at least when it comes to standard smell and taste tests.
Although they are mainly just growing bigger and stronger now, there are some key elements of their development going on as the nerves in their brain which control the senses are still forming, eventually enabling them to smell, see, hear, taste and touch.
(3) Baby massage oil or lotion can reduce friction as you massage your baby, and will also add the sense of smell to your massage time.
There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with others, and also that the brain is engaged in several different areas by particular words, such as areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.
This will provide a sense of calm for your infant, as well as kangaroo care (skin on skin — naked baby on Daddy's bare chest) to smell you and feel your heartbeat.
During this time, baby continues to undergo a series of sophisticated processes to sharpen senses such as touch, vision, taste, hearing, and smell
Some common pregnancy symptoms that you can expect to experience include tingling nipples as blood supply increases (much the same as pins and needles), spotting and cramping, feeling nauseous or being sick, tender and swollen breasts and other symptoms including increased sense of smell and cravings.
They appear not to wake up as much next to their mothers but actually in terms of small arousals and even larger ones they wake up more, but they do not necessarily alert the mother because they sense their own safety (or whatever emotion or physical sense that reduces stress or anxiety) which comes with smelling her milk and feeling her body, hearing her breadth and feeling her movements and rhythms.
The sense of smell, taste, sight, hearing, and touch are all developing as well.
Because infants are biologically designed to sense that something dangerous has occurred, separation from the caregiver... and they feel, through their skin, that something is different such as a missing the softness of the mother's touch, the heat of mother's body, the smells of mother's milk, the gentleness of mother's moving — breathing chest and the feeling of being protected.
very early signs of pregnancy A heightened sense of smell is another symptom of pregnancy and can also be a trigger of nausea, things you once loved the smell of, such as perfumes and aftershaves have become so repulsive that you will have no alternative but to find them new homes outdoors and a long way from the house, as even the slightest whiff of them can make you bolt for the toilet.
As with most of these early pregnancy symptoms mentioned, when it comes to a heightened sense of smell, a woman can blame her pregnancy hormones.
Some women report a heightened sense of taste or smell as a sign of ovulation, but changes in the senses of taste and smell are also fairly common indicators of early pregnancy.
One could be to taste because as she explores her environment her sense of taste will help her distinguish items based on texture, smell, and what is tasty and what isn't.
Engaging with your baby through massage incorporates all the elements of parent - child bonding as it stimulates your little one's senses through skin contact, eye contact and your familiar smell as well as hearing your voice and experiencing a focussed response.
«In this way these receptors regulate our senses of smell, taste and vision as well as a number of other conditions and feelings,» explains Professor Johan Åqvist, who directed the study, which is now being published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
They then use their own sense of smell to evaluate the results, rather than sophisticated analytical equipment, as one might imagine.
The differences they found in the cat genome help explain characteristics such as why cats are almost exclusively carnivorous and how their vision and sense of smell differ from other animals like dogs.
In much the same way as dogs can be trained to detect some diseases through their keen sense of smell, technology can help create electronic devices capable of performing this same task.
«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.
Nocturnal moths, such as the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta, rely on their extremely sensitive sense of smell in order to locate their food sources: flowers that contain nectar.
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«Among families having several members with SMCHD1 mutations, we observed some who did not have complete arhinia but had an abnormally small nose or lacked a sense of smell, as well as the one individual that had symptoms of FSHD2 but no craniofacial abnormalities, indicating this is not a simple genetic model,» says Talkowski.
In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturing.
As they report in a paper published July 16 in Current Biology, the minute insects employ a razor - sharp sense of smell to tip them off that a warm - blooded meal is nearby, and then use vision and other senses to home in on the feast.
As a result, even though the sense of smell has a major contribution to the flavors of foods, most efforts to increase food intake in kidney disease patients have focused on the sense of taste and direct appetite stimulation.
As they report in a second Science Express paper today, the animals gained a keener sense of smell.
While previous research had determined that humans could use the sense of smell to detect high levels of pure fat in the form of fatty acids, it was not known whether it was possible to detect fat in a more realistic setting, such as food.
Prior research has demonstrated that the MB is associated with learning and memory, especially in relation to the sense of smell, also known as olfaction.
A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.
If this dinosaur is anything like its relatives then it likely did not have a super sense of smell; but maybe the nose was used as a means of attracting mates, recognizing members of its species, or even as a large attachment for a plant - smashing beak.
Without the dog, and its excellent sense of smell, acting as a sentinel, humans could not have evolved the anatomy needed for language, as this development left the human olfactory system diminished.
Although Parkinson's disease is often associated with motor symptoms such as stiffness, poor balance and trembling, the first symptoms are often sensory and include a reduced sense of touch and smell.
A side effect of losing PRMT - 5 in C. elegans is a heightened sense of smell: In the worms, dopamine signaling acts as a brake or check on the sensory system's response to odorants.
Now it seems this sense of interspecies connection is real: dogs can smell your emotions, and adopt them as their own.
It suggested that taking hormonal contraceptives (as I have for many years) affects your sense of smell, which is a key factor in finding Mr Right (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol 275, p 2715).
«In living higher primates you find the opposite: the brain is very big, and the olfactory bulb is very small, presumably because as their vision got better their sense of smell got worse.»
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