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Jacobson's organ

n :  a slender horizontal canal in the nasal mucosa that ends in a blind pouch, has an olfactory function, and is rudimentary in adult human beings but highly developed in most reptiles - called also organ of Jacobson , vomeronasal organ  .
 
 

 
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