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septal organ of Masera
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A small island of olfactory neuroepithelium lying bilaterally at the ventral base of the nasal septum near the entrance of the nasopharynx. [ ]
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septal organ of Masera
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SO of Masera
id
UBERON:0015246
taxon notes
This olfactory apparatus has been observed in many mammals, including rat, mouse, hamster, deer mouse, rabbit, opossum, guinea pig, bandicoot, and koala (Rodolfo-Masera 1943; Adams and McFarland 1971; Bojsen-Moller 1975; Katz and Merzel 1977; Breipohl et al. 1983, 1989; Kratzing 1984a, 1984b; Taniguchi et al. 1993), but not in cat (Breipohl et al. 1983) or ferret (Weiler and Farbman 2003)
Term relations
Subclass of:
- septal olfactory organ
- endoderm-derived structure
- part of some olfactory epithelium
- has part some olfactory gland