Svensk definition
En på silbenet belägen äggformad struktur där luktnerven slutar. Luktloben innehåller olika typer av nervceller, inklusive mitralcellerrna, på vars dendriter luktnervens synapser bildar luktnystan. Till luktloben hör även den accessoriska luktloben, som tar emot intrycken från vomero-nasale genom vomero-nasalisnerven.
Engelsk definition
Ovoid body resting on the CRIBRIFORM PLATE of the ethmoid bone where the OLFACTORY NERVE terminates. The olfactory bulb contains several types of nerve cells including the mitral cells, on whose DENDRITES the olfactory nerve synapses, forming the olfactory glomeruli. The accessory olfactory bulb, which receives the projection from the VOMERONASAL ORGAN via the vomeronasal nerve, is also included here.
Svenska synonymer
Bulbus olfactorius — Tractus olfactorius — Luktbana
Engelska synonymer
Bulb, Olfactory — Bulbs, Olfactory — Olfactory Bulbs — Main Olfactory Bulb — Bulb, Main Olfactory — Bulbs, Main Olfactory — Main Olfactory Bulbs — Olfactory Bulb, Main — Olfactory Bulbs, Main — Bulbus Olfactorius — Olfactorius, Bulbus — Olfactory Tract — Olfactory Tracts — Tract, Olfactory — Tracts, Olfactory — Lateral Olfactory Tract — Lateral Olfactory Tracts — Olfactory Tract, Lateral — Olfactory Tracts, Lateral — Tract, Lateral Olfactory — Tracts, Lateral Olfactory — Olfactory Glomerulus — Glomerulus, Olfactory — Accessory Olfactory Bulb — Accessory Olfactory Bulbs — Bulb, Accessory Olfactory — Bulbs, Accessory Olfactory — Olfactory Bulb, Accessory — Olfactory Bulbs, Accessory