sense of taste and smell

Gustatory system

sensory system for taste

How does it work?

Things that we eat are soluable when it dissolve in your mouth there’s cells that absorb chemical and triggered and route the sense to the thatlamus of the brain.

Why do food taste bad when we’re sick

Most of taste is actually smell

Taste buds

salt

sour

bitter

sweet

umami

Orthonasal Olfaction

Smelling through your nostril

Ex: smelling pizza before eating pizza

Retronasal Olfaction

Smelling molecules travel from mouth to nasal cavity.

Ex: smelling pizza while eating pizza

Microvillo

taste receptors in tongue

Olfactory receptor neurons

Cells that help you smell, detect smells and convert them into electrical signals.

Glomerulus

Neurons with the same type of odor receptor send signal to the same glomerulus ijn olfactory bulb

How many Olfactory receptors neurons types do we have

350

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