Nasal bone

Nasal bone
Nasal bone
	Nasal bone visible at center, in dark green.
	Cartilages of the nose. Side view. (Nasal bone visible at upper left.)
Details
Identifiers
Latin	os nasale
MeSH	D009295
TA98	A02.1.10.001
TA2	748
FMA	52745
	Anatomical terms of bone [edit on Wikidata]

The nasal bones are two small oblong bones, varying in size and form in different individuals; they are placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face and by their junction, form the bridge of the upper one third of the nose.

Each has two surfaces and four borders.

^[1]Structure[]

The two nasal bones are joined at the midline internasal suture and make up the bridge of the nose.

Surfaces[]

The outer surface is concavo-convex from above downward, convex from side to side; it is covered by the procerus and nasalis muscles, and perforated about its center by a foramen, for the transmission of a small vein.

The inner surface is concave from side to side, and is traversed from above downward, by a groove for the passage of a branch of the nasociliary nerve.

Articulations[]

The nasal articulates with four bones: two of the cranium, the frontal and ethmoid, and two of the face, the opposite nasal and the maxilla.

Other animals[]

In primitive bony fish and tetrapods, the nasal bones are the most anterior of a set of four paired bones forming the roof of the skull, being followed in sequence by the frontals, the parietals, and the postparietals. Their form in living species is highly variable, depending on the shape of the head, but they generally form the roof of the snout or beak, running from the nostrils to a position short of the orbits. In most animals, they are generally therefore proportionally larger than in humans or great apes, because of the shortened faces of the latter. Turtles, unusually, lack nasal bones, with the prefrontal bones of the orbit reaching all the way to the nostrils.^[2]

Additional images[]

Lateral wall of nasal cavity, showing ethmoid bone in position.
Right nasal bone. Outer surface.
Right nasal bone. Inner surface.

References[]

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 156 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

^ Carbonell, Beatriz (2020). "Los tocapus de Llullaillaco". Zea Books. 100 percent: 234. doi:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1210.
^ Romer, Alfred Sherwood; Parsons, Thomas S. (1977). The Vertebrate Body. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. pp. 217–241. ISBN 0-03-910284-X.

External links[]

Anatomy figure: 22:02-07 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center—"Anterior view of skull."
Anatomy photo:29:st-0206 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center—"Orbits and Eye: Bones"
Anatomy figure: 33:01-03 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center—"The bones of the lateral nasal wall."
"Anatomy diagram: 34256.000-1". Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator. Elsevier. Archived from the original on 2014-01-01.

[1] Carbonell, Beatriz (2020). "Los tocapus de Llullaillaco". Zea Books. 100 percent: 234. doi:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1210.

[VB-2] Romer, Alfred Sherwood; Parsons, Thomas S. (1977). The Vertebrate Body. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. pp. 217–241. ISBN 0-03-910284-X.

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