Nasal bone

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Side view of the skull:
1. Frontal bone (Os frontale)
2. Parietal bone (Os parietale)
3. Nasal bone (Os nasale) (green)
4. Ethmoid bone (Os ethmoidale)
5. Lacrimal bone (Os lacrimale)
6. Sphenoid bone (Os sphenoidale)
7 . occiput (occipital)
8. temporal bone (temporal bone)
9. cheekbone (zygomatic bone)
10. upper jaw (maxilla)
11 lower jaw (mandible)
Skull of a sheep
nasal bone marked in color

The nasal bone ( Latin os nasale ) is a pair of bones of the facial skull . It forms most of the roof of the nose and thus the upper wall of the nasal cavity .

The nasal septum ( septum nasi ) and the upper turbinate ( concha nasi superior ) are attached to the inside of the nasal bone . The latter also limits the upper nasal passage ("olfactory duct").

In many mammals (exceptions: humans, predators ) the nasal bone protrudes forward beyond the intermaxillary bone ( os incisivum ), so that an acute-angled incision ( incisura nasoincisiva ) is formed.

External blows can easily fracture the nasal bone (see nasal bone fracture ).

literature

  • Franz-Viktor Salomon: Bony skeleton . In: Franz-Viktor Salomon et al. (Hrsg.): Anatomie für die Tiermedizin . 3. Edition. Enke, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8304-1288-5 , pp. 98-99 .

Web links

Commons : Nose Bones  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology (FCAT) (1998). Terminologia Anatomica . Stuttgart: Thieme