See Also: fila olfactoria(medicine)
regio olfactoria tunicae mucosae nasi(medicine)
fila(medicine)
fila radicularia(medicine)
olfactory fila(medicine)
radicular fila(medicine)

gin(3) (iou) and fila olfactoria (medicine)


gin(3) (iou)



gin noun2. E18.
[Abbreviation of geneva, GENEVER.]
An alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries; a drink of this. E18.
gin and orange, gin and tonic, etc. gin and it: see IT noun. HOLLANDS gin. pink gin: see PINK adjective2.
G. Greene He only felt his loneliness after his third gin.
In full gin rummy. A form of rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play. M20.
OKLAHOMA gin.
Comb.: gin berry the juniper berry; gin-crawl: see CRAWL noun2 1b; gin-mill US slang a bar, a run-down or seedy nightclub; gin-palace a gaudily decorated public house; gin pennant Nautical a green and white flag hoisted to invite officers of Other ships to come aboard for Drinks; gin rummy: see sense 2 above; gin sling a sweetened and flavoured drink of gin and water; gin-soaked, gin-sodden adjectives soaked with gin, given to drinking large quantities of gin.
ginny adjective affected by, addicted to, characterized by, or resembling gin L19.

fila olfactoria (medicine)


fila olfactoria -->
olfactory nerves


Collective term denoting the numerous olfactory filaments: slender fascicles each composed of the thin, unmyelinated axons of 8 to 12 of the bipolar olfactory receptor cells in the olfactory portion of the nasal mucosa; the olfactory filaments pass through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone and enter the olfactory bulb, where they terminate in synaptic contact with mitral cells, tufted cells, and granule cells.

See: olfactory tract.

Synonym: nervi olfactorii, fila olfactoria, first cranial nerve, nerve of smell, olfactory fila.