Olfactory nerve

OLFACTORY NERVE (SENSORY)

  • It is a nerve of special sense for smell.
  • It consists of fibres which are the axons of the olfactory cells in the olfactory part of the nasal mucous membrane.
  • The fibres are non-medullated and are collected into small bundles enclosed in sheaths furnished by the meninges of the brain; pass through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid and join the convex face of the olfactory bulb.

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