Epithelium
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When odor molecules hit the back of your nose, they get stuck in a layer of mucus covering the olfactory
epithelium
.
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So that suggests to us that our sense of self does not end at the last layer of the
epithelium
of our bodies, but it ends at the last layer of electrons of the tools that we're commanding with our brains.
But at the very back of your nose is a region called the olfactory epithelium, a little patch of skin that's key to everything you smell.
The olfactory
epithelium
has a layer of olfactory receptor cells, special neurons that sense smells, like the taste buds of your nose.
As a side note, you can tell a lot about how good an animal's sense of smell is by the size of its olfactory
epithelium.
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