nasal septum
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separator of the left and right airways in the nose
Key facts
- Artery
- Anterior ethmoidal , posterior ethmoidal , sphenopalatine , greater palatine , branch of superior labial
- Nerve
- Anterior ethmoidal , nasopalatine nerves, medial posterosuperior nasal branches of pterygopalatine ganglion
- Lymph
- Anterior half to submandibular nodes, posterior half to retropharyngeal and deep cervical lymph nodes
- Latin
- septum nasi
- Mesh
- D009300
- Ta98
- A06.1.02.004
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Research
13,080 papers- The nasal septum.Otolaryngologic clinics of North America · 1987
- Actinomycosis Confined to the Nasal Septum.Ear, nose, & throat journal · 2025
- [Surgery of the Nasal Septum].Laryngo- rhino- otologie · 2020
- The nasal septum and midfacial growth.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2025
- The importance of the nasal septum in the deviated nose.Facial plastic surgery : FPS · 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- human nose
- Has part
- vomer
- Image
- Gray854.png
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- innervates
- nasopalatine nerve
- arterial supply
- anterior ethmoidal artery
- anatomical location
- nasal cavity
- Commons category
- Nasal septum
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C33160
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Encyclopedic overview
The nasal septum (Latin: septum nasi) separates the left and right airways of the nasal cavity, dividing the two nostrils.
It is depressed by the depressor septi nasi muscle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nasal septum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.