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Nasal cavity

The vaulted chamber that lies between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth of higher vertebrates extending from the external nares to the pharynx, being enclosed by bone or cartilage and usually incompletely divided into lateral halves by the septum of the nose, and having its walls lined with mucous membrane that is rich in venous plexuses and ciliated in the lower part which forms the beginning of the respiratory passage and warms and filters the inhaled air and that is modified as sensory epithelium in the upper olfactory part.

This cavity is divided into two separate cavities by the septum and kept patent by a bone and cartilaginous framework. Each cavity consists of a roof, floor, medial wall, and lateral wall. Within each cavity are three regions; nasal vestibule, respiratory region, and olfactory region.

Sources:

Anatomy, Head and Neck, Nasal cavity. (2021). National Institutes of Health.

Anatomy and other pharmalogic knowledge. (2019). Amazon: OpenGate group.

Part of speech Noun
Countable/uncountable Uncountable
Type Common
Gender Feminine
Case Nominative