Osteology
Lateral wall of right nasal fossa
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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.
- Nasal bone
- Frontal process of maxilla
- Upper pointer: Lacrimal bone Lower pointer: Lacrimoconchal suture
- Lacrimal process inferior nasal conchae
- Openings of maxillary sinus
- Inferior nasal concha
- Inferior nasal meatus
- Anterior nasal spine
- Incisive canal (for communicating branch between posterior nasal septal artery and greater palatine artery)
- Cribriform plate éthmoid bone (above left nasal fossa)
- Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone (cut away)
- Superior nasal concha
- Sphenoethmoidal recess
- Sphenoid sinus left
- Sphenoid sinus right (sphenoidal septal sinuses partially cut away)
- Sella turcica
- Upper pointer: Superior nasal meatus Lower pointer: Middle nasal concha
- Nasopharyngeal meatus
- Perpendicular part of palatine bone
- Medial plate of pterygoid process
- Palatomaxillary suture
- Nasomaxillary crest
- Palatine process of maxilla
- Incisive canal (for nasopalatine nerve)