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scent

a distinctive, agreeable odor. Animals secrete them from sweat and sebaceous glands and special scent glands. See also pheromone.

scent gland impaction

the secretion in the gland becomes inspissated and forms an irritating foreign body.

scent The smell of a thing or person. See Pseudoscent.

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