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What is the difference between the bony nasal cavity and the nasal cavity?
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∙ 15y ago
The bony nasal cavity is made up of the hard palate and the palatine process of the maxilla. The nasal cavity is made up of the rest of the nasal sinuses and includes the bony nasal cavity.
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What are the bony ridges that warm air called?
The bony ridges that warm the air as it travels through the nasal cavity are called turbinate bones or nasal conchae. They help to increase the surface area of the nasal cavity to aid in warming, humidifying, and filtering incoming air before it reaches the lungs.
What does the hard palate separate?
The palate is defined as the combination of the hard and soft palate. The hard palate, the anterior bony portion, separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
What is the nasal conchae?
The nasal conchae are three pairs of bony projections in the nasal cavity. They are generally curved inferomedially with each roofing a groove or meatus. It helps to filter, heat and moisten inhaled air and minimize heat and moisture loss from the body during exhalation.
What separates the two nasal cavities?
What is the bony separation between the nasal passage called
What is the difference between hagfish and lancelets?
bony jaws
What is an air-filled bony cavity?
A sinus is an air cavity in bone.
Which bones is bony skeleton of nose?
Nasal Bone
What is the bony framework of the thoracic cavity?
rib cage
What are the two bony structures that make up the nasal septum?
The nasal septum, the division between the left and right airways of the nose, is made of three structures: the vomer bone, perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone, and its cartilage. The bony part is the major part of the septum that consists of the perpendicular plate of ethmoid, and the vomer bone.
What is the ventral cavity that has no bony protection?
NAME THE VENTRAL CAVITY THAT HAS NO BBONY PROTECTION
What is the bony chamber that protects and supports the brain?
cranial cavity
What is the meanig of septum?
Septum means a partition. It can be a bony septum or a cartilagenous septum as in the nasal cavity. Or a membrane as in case of the foramina in heart during fetal life which can persist after birth at times as septal defects or holes in the heart.
