nasal bone
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- nasal (ellipsis)
Noun
[edit]nasal bone (plural nasal bones)
- (anatomy, zootomy) Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.
Translations
[edit]bone
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References
[edit]- “nasal bone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “nasal bone”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.