nasal chamber

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• nasal cavity — n the vaulted chamber that lies between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth of higher vertebrates extending from the external nares to the pharynx, being enclosed by bone or cartilage and usu. incompletely divided into lateral… …   Medical dictionary

• Nasal consonant — Manners of articulation Obstruent Plosive (occlusive) Affricate Fricative Sibilant Sonorant Nasal Flap/Tap …   Wikipedia

• nasal cavity — noun either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑cavity, ↑bodily cavity, ↑cavum • Part Holonyms: ↑nose, ↑olfactory organ, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Nose — For other uses, see Nose (disambiguation). For the article about noses in humans, see human nose. Nose Dogs have very sensitive noses Latin …   Wikipedia

• mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …   Universalium

• Turbinal — Tur bi*nal, a. [L. turbo, turben, inis, a top, whirl.] (Anat.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll like; turbinate; applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• amphibian — /am fib ee euhn/, n. 1. any cold blooded vertebrate of the class Amphibia, comprising frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians, the larvae being typically aquatic, breathing by gills, and the adults being typically semiterrestrial,… …   Universalium

• human evolution — Evolution of modern human beings from nonhuman and extinct hominid forms. Genetic evidence points to an evolutionary divergence between the lineages of humans and the great apes (Pongidae) on the African continent 5–8 million years ago. The… …   Universalium

• Embolotherium — Taxobox name = Embolotherium fossil range = Late Eocene image caption = Embolotherium andrewsi regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Perissodactyla familia = Brontotheriidae genus = Embolotherium subdivision ranks =… …   Wikipedia

• Jacobson's organ — /jay keuhb seuhnz/, Anat., Zool. either of a pair of blind, tubular, olfactory sacs in the roof of the mouth, vestigial in humans but well developed in many animals, esp. reptiles. [1870 75; named after L. L. Jacobson (d. 1843), Danish anatomist] …   Universalium

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