Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Appellative of a cartilage which forms a partition in the lateral part of the nasal passage of the skull of an embryonic bird; pertaining to or connected with this cartilage.
  • noun The aliseptal cartilage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

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  • adjective anatomy Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

Etymologies

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Latin ala wing + English septal.

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