Middle nasal concha

Middle nasal concha

Ethmoid bone from behind.

Lateral wall of nasal cavity, showing ethmoid bone in position. (Middle nasal concha is at bottom of pink region.)
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Identifiers
Latin Concha media
TA A06.1.02.014
FMA 57459

Anatomical terms of bone

The medial surface of the labyrinth of ethmoid consists of a thin lamella, which descends from the under surface of the cribriform plate, and ends below in a free, convoluted margin, the middle nasal concha.

It is rough, and marked above by numerous grooves, directed nearly vertically downward from the cribriform plate; they lodge branches of the olfactory nerves, which are distributed to the mucous membrane covering the superior nasal concha.

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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