Category: N

Referring to the nose and stomach. To the nasal passages and the stomach, especially relating to intubation. A conduit is introduced through the nasal passages, extending all the way to the stomach.  

A trade name for a mixture containing chlorhexidine and neomycin, used to treat nasal infection by organisms such as staphylococci. Naseptin cream is a trade name for a mixture of chlorhexidine (an antiseptic for the skin) and neomycin (an antibiotic medication). This cream is employed to eradicate microorganisms, such as staphylococci, from the interior of…

A spray of liquid into the nose.  

A wall of cartilage between the two nostrils and the two parts of the nasal cavity. Mucous-membrane-covered bone and cartilage partition dividing the nostrils. The partition that divides the nasal cavity into two nasal fossae. The bony portion is formed by the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone and the vomer. The cartilaginous portion is…

Drops of liquid inserted into the nose.  

The blocking of the nose by inflammation as a response to a cold or other infection. Symptom of the common cold or allergies produced by dilated, or expanded, blood vessels in the membranes of the nose and an increase and thickening of mucus in the nose. Nasal congestion, sometimes described as a stuffy nose or…

The three ridges of bone, called the superior, middle and inferior conchae, which project into the nasal cavity from the side walls.  

The cavity behind the nose between the cribriform plates above and the hard palate below, divided in two by the nasal septum and leading to the nasopharynx. Either of the pair of cavities that open on the face to allow the passage of air into the pharynx. The space inside the nose that lies between…

One of two cartilages in the nose. The upper is attached to the nasal bone and the front of the maxilla. The lower is thinner and curls round each nostril to the septum. Any of the cartilages forming the principal portion of the subcutaneous framework of the nose.  

The two openings shaped like funnels leading from the nasal cavity to the pharynx.