ethmoid bone

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Related to ethmoid bone: cribriform plate of ethmoid bone, orbital plate of ethmoid bone

ethmoid bone

A bone forming the side walls of the nose.

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ethmoid bone - one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity

ethmoid

bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

braincase, brainpan, cranium - the part of the skull that encloses the brain

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The ethmoid bone consists of four parts: horizontal (cribriform) plate, vertical (perpendicular) plate, two lateral masses (labyrinths).

The Incidence of Sinus Crista Galli in Children and Adults. A Computerized Tomography Study/La Incidencia del Sinus Crista Galli en Ninos y Adultos. Un Estudio de Tomografia Computarizada

Later, cases of GCRG were reported to originate from sphenoid bone, ethmoid bone, skull base, temporal bone, craniofacial bone, short bones of the hand and feet, and long bones of the extremities.

Case Reports of a Giant Cell Reparative Granuloma and a Giant Cell Tumor on Temporal Bone

According to the embryonic hypothesis, the main places for paranasal sinus osteoma formation are osseous proliferations at the junctions where the cartilaginous ethmoid bone meets the membranous frontal bone (2).

Solitary Osteoma within the Cavity of a Pneumatized Middle Turbinate

The dorsal nasal turbinate was the longest and extended from level of third transverse rugae of hard palate to level of cribriform plate of ethmoid bone and it continued rostrally as straight fold.

Gross Anatomy of Nasal Cavity of Kenguri Sheep (Ovis aries)

The uncinate process is a part of the ethmoid bone. (1) It arises inferiorly from the ethmoid process of the inferior turbinate and inserts either superiorly at the ethmoid roof, superolaterally on the lamina papyracea, or superomedially on the middle turbinate.

Endoscopic identification and powered removal of the uncinate process

The roof of the ethmoid bone is formed by the fovea ethmoidalis laterally and the cribriform plate medially.

Study of sinonasal variations by ct scan and nasal endoscopy in chronic sinusitis: a prospective clinical study

The bit between your eyes is the ethmoid bone and is connected to your liver.

WRITTEN ALL OVER your face; If you eat a lot of junk food do you get spots on your forehead? Or maybe breakouts on your chin when it's your time of the month? Your face is trying to tell you something..

They are extramural cells (not confined within the ethmoid bone) and extend anteriorly into the lacrimal bone.