Medical Definition of Osmatic
1. Synonym: olfactory. Origin: G. Osme, smell (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmatic
Literary usage of Osmatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of the Central Nervous System of Man and of Vertebrates in General by Ludwig Edinger (1899)
"to be sure, are essentially thinner, split up exactly as they do in the osmatic
vertebrates, and pass away as white strands—earlier named olfactory roots— ..."
2. The Croonian Lectures on Cerebral Localisation by David Ferrier (1890)
"Though the hippocampus is well developed in osmatic animals, it cannot be said
to be atrophied in man and in the monkey, or to undergo variations in size ..."
3. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"It is best developed in osmatic mammals. The fimbria (fig. 102,,/î) represents
the white matter of the hemisphere, which here comes to the surface along the ..."
4. The Anatomy of the Central Nervous Organs in Health and Disease by Heinrich Obersteiner (1890)
"... so that the difference between the two classes of vegetable and animal feeders
is one of degree rather than of kind, whilst carnivores are "osmatic" par ..."
5. The Spinal Cord and Brain by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer (1895)
"It is best developed in osmatic mammals. The fimbria (fig. 102, Ji) represents
the white matter of the hemisphere, which here comes to the surface along the ..."
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