ethmoid

• When pain coming from the sinus infection headache is being felt in the area between and behind your eyes, then the most likely sinuses that have been infected should be the ethmoid sinuses since they are the ones that are located in the deeper recesses of the nose. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• It contains only two ossifications in its cartilaginous substance (the sphen-ethmoid and the ex-occipital), being protected by the membrane bones the parieto-frontals above and the parasphenoid below In the mammal it is enormously inflated, and the otic capsules are imbedded in its wall. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• The basilar plate and the trabeculć, which are developed from the chorda sheath, give origin to three bones, which might possibly be considered equivalent to vertebral centra--the basioccipital, the basisphenoid, and the Riechbein (ethmoid). —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
• Another bone assisting to form the skull, but not here seen, is called the ethmoid (sieve-like, from being full of holes), and is situated between the sockets of the eyes, forming the roof of the nose THE BONES OF THE HEAD are classed as follows: eight belonging to the Cranium, and fourteen to the Face. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
• While it is white and without smell, and the dog is not too much emaciated, the termination may be favourable; but when it becomes of a darker colour, and mingled with blood, and offensive, the ethmoid or turbinated bones are becoming carious, and death supervenes. —  The Dog

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