nasal cavity

  • 11Nasal hair — Nasal hair. Nasal hair or nose hair is the hair in the nose. Its main function is to keep foreign or unwanted particles from entering the lungs through the nasal cavity. Adult humans have hairs in the anterior nasal passage. Nasal hair should not …

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  • 12Nasal congestion — Classification and external resources ICD 9 478.19 Nasal congestion is the blockage of the nasal passages usually due to membranes lining the nose becoming swollen from inflamed blood vessels.[1] …

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  • 13Nasal release — ◌ⁿ IPA number 425 Encoding Entity (decimal) #8319; …

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  • 14Nasal — may refer to: Nose, a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which admit and expel air for respiration in conjunction with the mouth Nasal bone, two small oblong bones placed side by side at the middle and upper part of… …

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  • 15Nasal septum — Bones and cartilages of septum of nose. Right side. Latin septum nasi Gray s …

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  • 16Nasal cartilages — Cartilages of the nose. Side view. (Greater alar cartilage visible in blue at center right.) …

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  • 17nasal fossa — n either lateral half of the nasal cavity * * * the portion of the nasal cavity anterior to the middle meatus …

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  • 18nasal concha — n any of three thin bony plates on the lateral wall of the nasal fossa on each side with or without their covering of mucous membrane: a) a separate curved bony plate that is the largest of the three and separates the inferior and middle meatuses …

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  • 19roof of nasal cavity — the superior surface of the cavity, formed by portions of the sphenoid, ethmoid, frontal, and nasal bones; it is narrow anteriorly and wider posteriorly …

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  • 20lateral wall of nasal cavity — the lateral surface of the cavity, containing the nasal conchae and meatus …

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