Diagnosis by smell?

Diagnosis of rotavirus gastroenteritis by smell.

Clinical features cannot differentiate rotavirus gastroenteritis from other types of diarrhoea. Sixty eight stool specimens were examined by nurses on an infant gastroenteritis ward. Of these, 69% were correctly classified by smell alone. The results are significant (p = 0.009) and support the suggestion that rotavirus stools have a characteristic smell.

Computational Studies of Exploration by Smell

Research on exploratory and searching behavior of animals and robots has attracted an increasing amount of interest recently. Existing works have focused mostly on exploratory behavior guided by vision and audition. On the other hand, research on smell-guided exploration has been lacking, even though animals may use the sense of smell more widely than sight or hearing to search for food and to ...

Body wisdom: detecting birth by smell.

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2004 Practising Midwife 7(1):30-31. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. While the idea of ‘body wisdom’ as a form of knowledge held by women and midwives is not new, there has been little written about specific exa...

To smell or not to smell? That is the question!

The Smell of Representations

ingful and are expected to elicit robust and reproducible The nose and palate never doubt / Their verdict on the physiological and behavioral responses. All of the above world without, / But instantaneously condemn / Or may facilitate the correlation of stimuli with the neuronal, praise each fact that reaches them: / ... Compared with physiological, and behavioral response. almost any brute, / ...