Example sentences for: retronasal

How can you use “retronasal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These considerations suggest the hypothesis that the retronasal route for smells has delivered a richer repertoire of smells in humans than in nonhuman primates and other mammals (see Figure 1).

  • Here we begin by reassessing several overlooked factors: the structure of the nasal cavity, retronasal smell, olfactory brain areas, and language.

  • Anthropologists and paleontologists need to study the olfactory parts of the cranium and face from this new perspective, to reassess the role that both orthonasal and retronasal smell may have played in primate and human evolution.

  • First, with the adoption of bipedalism, humans became increasingly wide ranging, with concomitant diversification of diet and retronasal smells.

  • Research on retronasal olfaction is being actively pursued (reviewed in Deibler and Delwiche 2004).


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