Jacobson's organ
smell sense organ in the nasal septum of the nasal cavity just above the roof of the mouth
Facts
4 properties- Instance of
- sensory nervous system, class of anatomical entity[2]
- Subclass of
- animal organ, zone of viscerocranial mucosa, particular anatomical entity[4][5][6]
- Described by source
- Gray's Anatomy (20th edition), Vomeronasal organ and social factors affect urine marking by male mice[7][8]
- Named after
- Ludwig Lewin Jacobson[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en vomeronasal organ
en Jacobson's organ
en VNO
en vomeronasal system
ar عضو ميكعي أنفي
cs Jacobsonův orgán
cs Jakobsonův orgán
cs Vomeronazální orgán
cs Vomeronasální orgán
da Vomeronasale organ
da Jacobsons organ
de Vomeronasalorgan
de Organon vomeronasale
de Jacobsonsches Organ
de Jacobson-Organ
de Vomeronasales Organ
es órganos de Jacobson
es organo vomeronasal
es órgano de Jacobson
es organos de Jacobson
🔖 Identifiers · 22
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85069227
- OpenAlex ID
- C49878776
- APA Dictionary of Psychology entry
- vomeronasal-system
- BNCF Thesaurus ID
- 78870
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- science/Jacobsons-organ
- Foundational Model of Anatomy ID
- 77280
- Freebase ID
- /m/01ldwx
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- vomeronasalorganet, Jacobsons_organ
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 4925311
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
- iakobsonov-organ-25191f
- J9U entity ID
- 987007529365405171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)
- vomeronasal-organ
Show all 22 identifiers +10
- MeSH descriptor ID
- D019147
- MeSH tree code
- A09.531.940
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 49878776
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
- 1281459
- TA2 ID
- 3141
- TA98 Latin term
- organum vomeronasale
- Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID
- A06.1.02.008
- UBERON ID
- 0002255
- Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
- XAO_0000272
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/72f4930c-c004-4720-9ae9-e96f44e1a743
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Summary
Jacobson's organ is a sensory nervous system[1].