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ethmoid bone
Sign in to savea bone in the skull separating the brain from the nasal cavity
Key facts
- Latin
- os ethmoidale
- Mesh
- D005004
- Ta98
- A02.1.07.001
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
3,552 papers- Fibrous Dysplasia of the Ethmoid Bone Diagnosed in a 10-Year-Old Patient.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024
- Are the Ethmoidal Foramina Through the Frontal Bone, Ethmoid Bone, or Frontoethmoidal Suture?The Kurume medical journal · 2024
- Anatomical variants of ethmoid bone on multidetector CT.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2018
- [Aneurysmal bone cyst of the ethmoid bone].Journal de radiologie · 2005
- Congenital cranial fasciitis of the ethmoid bone with extensive intracranial and facial involvement: a case report and review of the literature.International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2025
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- irregular bone
- Part of
- chondrocranium
- Has part
- labyrinth of ethmoid
- Image
- Rotation ethmoid.gif
- Connects with
- frontal bone
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12711
- Commons category
- Ethmoid bones
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Encyclopedic overview
The ethmoid bone (/ˈɛθmɔɪd/; from Ancient Greek: ἡθμός, romanized: hēthmós, lit. 'sieve') is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. It is located at the roof of the nose, between the two orbits. The cubical (cube-shaped) bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction. The ethmoid bone is one of the bones that make up the orbit of the eye.
Structure
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