Olfactory bulb

The olfactory bulb or olfactory bulb (Latin bulbus: the onion, Latin olfactorius: smelling) is a swelling at the front base of the brain and part of the Rhine Cephalon and the olfactory tract. In the olfactory bulb forming the olfactory nerve ( olfactory nerves ), the pull of the olfactory mucosa in the nose through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone into the cranial cavity. The olfactory bulb of both sides are connected via the anterior commissure ( Commisura rostralis ).

After complicated switching in the glomeruli and olfactory initial processing of olfactory information in the olfactory bulb sensory messages reach the olfactory tract to higher processing centers in the telencephalon.

Specialized cells of the olfactory bulb are the mitral cells, brush cells and granule cells.

Olfactory disorders caused by damage to the olfactory bulb are among the so-called central Dysosmien.

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