Ja|cob|son's organ

Ja|cob|son's organ
Ja|cob|son's organ «JAY kuhb suhnz»,
either one of the cavities in the roof of the mouth of most vertebrates, which contain branches of the olfactory nerve, undeveloped in man, but highly developed in most reptiles.
[< L. L. Jacobson, 1783-1843, a Danish anatomist]

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