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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.

See Olfactory nerves.

The bulb-like extremity of the olfactory nerve on the under surface of each anterior lobe of the cerebrum.

An oblong body, consisting almost entirely of gray matter, resting on the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone, through the perforations of which it sends down nerve filaments from its lower surface to enter the nose.