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Ethmoid

noun
1.
One of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity.  Synonym: ethmoid bone.



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... connexions, and is desirous to impress the fact that none is formed without cartilage. From his mention of many minute holes (multa et tenuia foramina) in the recess of the nasal cavities, it is evident that he was acquainted with the perforated plate of the ethmoid bone; and from saying that the straight part of the auditory canal becomes flexuous and terminates in numerous minute cavities (multa et tenuia foramina diducitur), it is inferred by Portal that he ...
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