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🏛️ A raised embankment 👃 A bone ridge
agger

agger

9.9
A small ridge of bone or tissue in the nose that can affect breathing
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • During the procedure, the doctor carefully avoided damaging the agger nasi region.

Examples

  • A prominent agger can sometimes be seen in detailed scans of the nasal cavity.

  • The agger nasi is an important anatomical feature.

  • The surgeon examined the agger to assess obstruction in the patient's nasal passage.

  • Many doctors study the aggers in the nasal cavity.

  • The surgeon examined the agger to assess obstruction in the patient's nasal passage.

  • During the procedure, the doctor carefully avoided damaging the agger nasi region.

  • A prominent agger can sometimes be seen in detailed scans of the nasal cavity.

Antonyms

valley
∞ 1.0

A low area of land between hills or mountains often with a river running through it

depression
  • Specialized
11 5.3

A low area of land that forms a hollow

How Raised

prominence
4 5.5
crest
5 4.3
to ridge
4 6.0
agger
  • Specialized
9.9
bump
118 2.5
flatness
3 2.9

Surface Forms

agger singular
aggers plural

Etymology

The word agger is also used in medicine from the same Latin agger, which means 'mound', and doctors call a small ridge of bone in the nose the agger nasi, literally the 'nose mound'. So in anatomy an agger is a little raised ridge of bone or tissue in the nose area.