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Ethmoid

/ˈɛθ.mɔɪd/

(bone) A square bone at the root of the nose, forming part of the cranium, and having many perforations through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nose.

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noun

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(bone) A square bone at the root of the nose, forming part of the cranium, and having many perforations through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nose.

adjective

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(bone) Of or relating to the ethmoid bone.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ethmoid"

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Word	Definition
bullanoun	(biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
ethmoid bonenoun	The bone of the skull between the eyes and at the roof of the nose.
ethmoid sinusnoun	(anatomy) Any of several paranasal sinuses enclosed within the ethmoid bone.
mesethmoidnoun	(anatomy) A bony cartilage, in the centre of the ethmoid part of the skull, that makes up most of the nasal septum.
dermethmoidnoun	A dermal ethmoid bone
turbinate bonenoun	(anatomy) A scrolled spongy bone of the nasal cavity.
nasal	(anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
nasal cavitynoun	(anatomy) In higher vertebrates, a large air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
sinusnoun	(anatomy, zootomy) A pouch or cavity in a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities (the paranasal sinus).
ethmoidectomynoun	The surgical removal of the partitions between the ethmoid sinuses in order to create larger sinus cavities.
parethmoidnoun	(anatomy) Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.
ethmoiditisnoun	inflammation of the ethmoid bone
ethmoturbinatenoun	The part of the ethmoid bone occupying the caudal part of the nasal fossae
vomer bonenoun	(anatomy) The small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
nasal septumnoun	(anatomy) A bony and cartilaginous partition in the nose, separating the left and right airways in the nose and dividing the two nostrils.
nasal bonenoun	(anatomy, zootomy) Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.
septumnoun	(anatomy) Either of the two walls that separate the atria or ventricles of the heart into left and right chambers.
sphenoethmoidal recessnoun	(anatomy) A small space between the sphenoid bone and the superior nasal concha into which the sphenoid sinus opens.
paranasal sinusnoun	(anatomy) Any of a number of air-filled spaces, or sinuses, within the bones of the skull and face.
superior nasal conchanoun	(anatomy) The upper of two thin bony processes of the ethmoid bone on the lateral wall of each nasal fossa that forms the upper boundary of the superior meatus of the nose.