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A small ridge on the lateral side of the nasal cavity.
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The opening at either end of the alar canal, with the rostral alar foramen closer to the nose and the caudal or posterior alar foramen closer to the back of the skull.
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(anatomy) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
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(anatomy) Relating to an antrum and its associated nasal cavity
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(anatomy) A muscle that arises from the galea aponeurotica, inserts into the helix, and acts to protract the external ear.
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(anatomy) Relating to the ear and the nose.
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Relating to the cheek and the nose
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(anatomy) Synonym of nasal septum
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(anatomy) Clipping of depressor septi nasi. [(anatomy) A small muscle of each side of the upper lip that is inserted into the nasal septum and wing of the nose on each side and constricts the nasal opening by drawing the wing downward.]
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(anatomy) A small muscle of each side of the upper lip that is inserted into the nasal septum and wing of the nose on each side and constricts the nasal opening by drawing the wing downward.
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(anatomy) Relating to the dorsal side of the tongue
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(anatomy) Any of a series of papyraceous bones in the nasal cavity which are interleaved with endoturbinates.
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(anatomy) Within the mouth.
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Relating to the ethmoid bone and the maxilla
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(anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
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(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
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Relating to the hyoid bone and the tongue
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(anatomy) inferior to the glottis
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(anatomy) inferior to the mandible
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(medicine) Labial and nasal; pertaining to both the upper lip and the nose, or to both lips and the nose.
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Alternative spelling of lacrimal bone [(anatomy) The smallest and most fragile bone of the face, situated near the eye.]
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(anatomy) The smallest and most fragile bone of the face, situated near the eye.
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(anatomy, ophthalmology) The upper dilated end of the nasolacrimal duct that is situated in a groove formed by the lacrimal bone and the frontal process of the maxilla and receives the lacrimal canaliculi.
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(anatomy) Synonym of tongue.
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(anatomy) Relating to the tongue and face.
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(anatomy, archaic) A fibrous muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, such as the dog.
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(anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch
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(anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the maxilla and the lacrimal bone
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(anatomy) Relating to the maxilla and the nose
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Synonym of maxillofacial
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(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.
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(anatomy) Having the nose of medium width, between leptorhine and platyrhine.
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(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.
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(anatomy) Any one of the three thin bony plates on the lateral wall of the nasal cavity.
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(anatomy) Either lateral half of the nasal cavity.
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(anatomy) A small muscle on each side of the nose that constricts the nasal aperture by the action of a triangular transverse portion which draws the lateral part of the aperture upward and a quadrangular alar portion which draws it downward.
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The point at the root of the nose where the frontal and two nasal bones meet.
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(surgery) Affecting the nasal cartilage and the alveolar ridge.
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(anatomy) Relating to the nose and the base of the skull.
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(anatomy) Relating to the nasal capsules
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(anatomy) nasal and choanal
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(anatomy) Relating to the nose and the chin
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(anatomy) Relating to the nasal and incisive bones
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(anatomy) Relating to the nose and lips.
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the nasal cavity and the palate.
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the nose and the premaxillae
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Alternative form of nasoturbinate [Of or pertaining to the nasal bones and turbinate bone.]
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Of or pertaining to the nasal bones and turbinate bone.
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(anatomy) The upper, bony part of the human nose, overlying the nasal bones.
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(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the inside of the nose, specifically nostrils
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Alternative form of orofacial [(anatomy) Of or affecting both the mouth and face.]
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(anatomy) Relating to the mouth, jaw, and face.
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(anatomy) Relating to the ear and mandible.
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(anatomy) palatal; palatine
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(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or involving the palate and the tongue; (specifically) of or pertaining to the palatoglossus.
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(anatomy) One of the posterior nares.
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(anatomy) the more posterior of the two ridges of soft tissue at the back of the mouth on each side that curves downward from the uvula to the side of the pharynx forming a recess for the palatine tonsil as it diverges from the palatoglossal arch and that is composed of part of the palatopharyngeus with its covering of mucous membrane
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(anatomy) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull.
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(anatomy) Relating to the nose and the eyelids.
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(anatomy) The shallow vertical groove running from the nasal septum to the center of the upper lip.
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(anatomy) The anterior opening of the nasal cavities in the skull.
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(anatomy) Any bone, such as the mastoid process or those of the birds, that contains many hollow cells full of air
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(anatomy, rare, chiefly in the plural) One of the anterior nares; a nostril.
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(anatomy) An incurved portion of the wall of the nasal chamber, distinguished from the true turbinals.
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(anatomy) Alternative form of piriform aperture. [(anatomy) The anterior opening of the nasal cavities in the skull.]
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(anatomy) Behind the palate
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(anatomy) The lower end of the suture between the nasal bones.
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(anatomy) Relating to the nose and the palate
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Any of the bones covering the brain, eyes, and nostrils in bony fishes and all land-living vertebrates.
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(anatomy) The oral or nasal region of a human used for anatomical location (i.e. rostral)
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(anatomy) The scaphoid fossa of the helix of the ear.
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Having the nasal bones separate: having the anterior nostrils prolonged in the form of a slit.
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(anatomy) A turbinate bone.
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(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla.
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(anatomy) Relating to the nasal septum.
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(anatomy) The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.
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(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.
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(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
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(anatomy) A ribbonlike muscle of the palate that arises from the scaphoid fossa, from the spine of the sphenoid bone, and from the lateral cartilaginous wall of the Eustachian tube, that is attached by a tendon which hooks around the pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone to insert especially into the soft palate, and that acts especially to tense the soft palate.
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(anatomy) A turbinate bone.
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(anatomy) A turbinal or turbinate bone.
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(anatomy) A scrolled spongy bone of the nasal cavity.
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Relating to the uvula and the palate
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(phonetics) Articulated at the velopharynx.
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(anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
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(anatomy) The small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
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(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth
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(anatomy) A muscle located between the zygomatic arch and the ear.
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Alternative form of zygomatico-orbital [(anatomy) Relating to the zygomatic arch and the orbit.]
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