Definition of Nasal concha

1. Noun. One of several turbinate bones in the nasal cavity.


Definition of Nasal concha

1. Noun. (anatomy) Any one of the three thin bony plates on the lateral wall of the nasal cavity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nasal Concha

nary
nary(a)
nary a
nas
nasal
nasal arch
nasal atrium
nasal bone
nasal border of frontal bone
nasal calculus
nasal canthus
nasal capsule
nasal catarrh
nasal cavities
nasal cavity
nasal concha (current term)
nasal conchae
nasal congestion
nasal consonant
nasal crest
nasal cycle
nasal cycles
nasal decongestant
nasal decongestants
nasal duct
nasal feeding
nasal foramen
nasal fossa
nasal ganglion
nasal glands

Literary usage of Nasal concha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"THE INFERIOR nasal concha The inferior nasal concha (inferior turbinate) (fig. 105) is a slender, scroll-like lamina, attached by its upper margin to the ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The inferior nasal concha extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal cavity (Fig. 315) and consists of a lamina of spongy bone, ..."

3. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"... sinus Frontal sinus Cut surface of middle concha Hiatus semilunaris Apertures of posterior ethmoidal cells Middle of nasal concha Probe in aperture of ..."

4. Anatomical Names by Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, Daniel Martin Schoemaker, Roy Lee Moodie, Wilhelm His (1917)
"white, lateral, of spinal cord—81-2- (- nasalis suprema ossea)—32:48 = (Supreme bony nasal concha) 80:37 — white, of spinal cord—80:42 - white, ..."

5. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The ventral one of these, known as the ventral or inferior meatus of the nose, lies ventrad of the inferior nasal concha, next to the nasal septum. ..."

6. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"The palatine articulates with six bones: the sphenoid, ethmoid, maxilla, inferior nasal concha, vomer, and opposite palatine. The Inferior nasal concha ..."

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