nasal bone
English
editAlternative forms
edit- nasal (ellipsis)
Noun
editnasal 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
editbone
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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.