ethmoid

Examples

• All

• The mass also involved the right ethmoid sinuses and the orbit, and it extended intracranially into the frontal lobe.

  Academic text (2002)

• The right ethmoid sinus was also invaded, so a total ethmoidectomy and sphenoidectomy were performed.

  Academic text (2008)

• The number of posterior ethmoid cells varies between one and five.

  Academic text (2008)

• Note that most had bilateral ethmoid and maxillary management and partial middle turbinectomies.

  Academic text (1994)

• After the lesion was completely removed, the walls of the ethmoid bulla were resected.

  Academic text (2006)

• The most common specific site of origin is the nasal cavity, followed by the ethmoid sinuses.

  Academic text (2009)

• Loughran et al. presented a case of a primary chordoma of the ethmoid sinus.

  Academic text (2005)

• In our patient, however, the tumor appeared to have originated in the ethmoid sinus and then spread to the intracranial cavity.

  Academic text (2006)

• The anterior and posterior ethmoid arteries supply the septum from above.

  Academic text (2007)

• Other reports have looked at the NSA as a result or complication of ethmoid and/or sphenoid sinusitis.

  Academic text (2009)

Synonyms

E

ethmoid bone

vsethmoid

• Specialized

8.6

A light spongy bone at the skull base that helps form the eye sockets and the inside of the nose

is identical in meaning but calls the area skull rather than cranium

Compounds

E

ethmoid bone

• Specialized

8.6

A light spongy bone at the skull base that helps form the eye sockets and the inside of the nose

E

ethmoid sinus

• Specialized

6.9

A small air-filled space in the bone between the nose and the eyes

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology