Body Odour

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
BO
Pronunciation
/ˈbɑdi ˈoʊdər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. Is their personal body odour attractive to you?
  2. Specific cells in one of the three organs that make up the mosquito's nose are tuned to identify the different chemicals that make up human body odour.
  3. To the mosquito some people's sweat simply smells better than others because of the proportions of the carbon dioxide, octenol and other compounds that make up body odour.
  4. The authors said this ' showed that there are situations in which a person's unpleasant body odour increases others ' helping behaviours toward this person '.
  5. Half a lemon wiped on the armpits, for example, helps kill the bacteria that causes body odour as well as eliminating those ruining yellow stains on white garments created by the reaction between sweat and the aluminium in antiperspirants.

Other meanings of BO