nasal bone

English

Alternative forms

• nasal (ellipsis)

Noun

nasal bone (plural nasal bones)

1. (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

bone

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bikol Central: masagbasag
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼻骨 (zh) (bígǔ)

• Czech: nosní kost f
• Dutch: neusbeen (nl) n
• Estonian: ninaluu
• Finnish: nenäluu (fi)
• French: os nasal (fr)
• German: Nasenbein (de) n
• Hungarian: orrcsont (hu)
• Korean: 코뼈 (ko) (koppyeo)
• Portuguese: osso nasal m
• Russian: носова́я кость f (nosovája kostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: nosnjača
• Swedish: näsben n
• Ukrainian: носова́ кі́стка f (nosová kístka)

References

• “nasal bone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “nasal bone”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.