Ethmoidal infundibulum

Ethmoidal infundibulum

Lateral wall of nasal cavity; the three nasal conchae have been removed (infundibulum labeled at center top)
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Identifiers
Latin Infundibulum ethmoidale
TA A06.1.02.027
FMA 75769

Anatomical terminology

The hiatus semilunaris is bounded inferiorly by the sharp concave margin of the uncinate process of the ethmoid bone, and leads into a curved channel, the infundibulum, bounded above by the bulla ethmoidalis and below by the lateral surface of the uncinate process of the ethmoid.

References

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

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