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Lateral wall of right nasal fossa

Image #38-1

KEYWORDS: Bones cartilage joints, Face, Nose.

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Osteology

Lateral wall of right nasal fossa

The osseous septum has been cut away from the specimen seen in view 37-7 to reveal the bones which together form the right lateral wall of the nasal fossa. The right sphenoid sinus (15) is visible through a window cut in the septum which separates the two sinuses.

1 .	Nasal bone
2 .	Frontal process of maxilla
3 .	Upper pointer: Lacrimal bone Lower pointer: Lacrimoconchal suture
4 .	Lacrimal process inferior nasal conchae
5 .	Openings of maxillary sinus
6 .	Inferior nasal concha
7 .	Inferior nasal meatus
8 .	Anterior nasal spine
9 .	Incisive canal (for communicating branch between posterior nasal septal artery and greater palatine artery)
10 .	Cribriform plate éthmoid bone (above left nasal fossa)
11 .	Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone (cut away)
12 .	Superior nasal concha
13 .	Sphenoethmoidal recess
14 .	Sphenoid sinus left
15 .	Sphenoid sinus right (sphenoidal septal sinuses partially cut away)
16 .	Sella turcica
17 .	Upper pointer: Superior nasal meatus Lower pointer: Middle nasal concha
18 .	Nasopharyngeal meatus
19 .	Perpendicular part of palatine bone
20 .	Medial plate of pterygoid process
21 .	Palatomaxillary suture
22 .	Nasomaxillary crest
23 .	Palatine process of maxilla
24 .	Incisive canal (for nasopalatine nerve)