The nose is the sense organ of
smell. It detects different smells in the air we breathe. At the entrance of
the nose, you will find there are two holes called nostrils. They are separated
by something called s septum. When you breathe in through the nostrils, the air
enters the nasal passage and heads into your nasal cavity. The nasal cavity is
a space in your head behind your nose. From the nasal cavity, the air heads
downhill though the trachea and ends up in the lungs. Then the whole process
happens in reverse when you exhale. Your nose can smell what it smells because
of the olfactory epithelium. It contains special receptors that notice smells.
Then the receptors send signals along the olfactory nerve. Those signals then
go to the brain.
Nevertheless, this is different
in aliens. The nose is the sense organ of taste. The aliens introduce the food
through their trosnil and then the nasal cavity moves food around it until it
is totally a mass. After that, the tastolfact liumepi detect different flavours
such as salty, sweet, bitter or sour. Finally, the information captured by
receptors in the tastolfact liumepi travels to the brain through the olfactory
nerve. The brain receives and interprets this information.