If You Enter a Room and Smell a Strong Odor

question 71

Multiple Choice

If you enter a room and smell a strong odor which soon fades away, you have experienced

• A)damage to your sensory receptors.
• B)sensory adaptation.
• C)pressure on chemoreceptors.
• D)referred pain.
• E)a neuronal loss in the olfactory center of the frontal lobe.

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