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Definition: Nasal Cavity |
Nasal CavityNoun1. Either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The proximal portion of the respiratory passages on either side of the nasal septum, lined with ciliated mucosa, extending from the nares to the pharynx. (references) |
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Crosswords: Nasal Cavity |
| English words defined with "nasal cavity": anterior naris ♦ deviated septum ♦ ethmoid, ethmoid bone, ethmoid sinus, ethmoidal sinus ♦ nasal concha, nasal meatus, nasal sinus, nasolacrimal duct, nostril ♦ os palatinum ♦ palatine, palatine bone, paranasal sinus, posterior naris, postnasal drip ♦ sinus ethmoidales, sinus paranasales. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nasal cavity": Nasal Lavage Fluid, Nasal Mucosa, Nasal Obstruction ♦ Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures ♦ Paranasal Sinuses ♦ Sphenoid Sinus ♦ Turbinates ♦ Vomeronasal Organ. (references) |
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Health | This nerve supplies the face, teeth, mouth, and nasal cavity with feeling and also enables the mouth muscles to chew. Symptoms are headache and intense facial pain that comes in short, excruciating jabs set off by the slightest touch to or movement of trigger points in the face or mouth. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nasal cavity | 14 |
nasal cavity cancer | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "nasal cavity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 鼻" . (various references) | |
Czech | nosní dutina. (various references) | |
German | nasenhöhle. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼻" (the nasal cavity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | びくう (the nasal cavity), び"う (beautiful port, faint light, follow, muzzle of a dog, N.B., nose and mouth, nostril, nostrils, note, provision for famine, remarks, shadow, tail, the nasal cavity, traveling incognito). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asalnay avitycay.(various references) | |
Swedish | näshåla. (various references) | |
Thai | โพรงจมูก. (various references) | |
Turkish | burun boşluğu (sinus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-n-s-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: analytics, cavatinas. | |
-3 letters: analytic, calisaya, cantalas, cavatina, nasality, salacity, santalic, scantily, sylvatic, vacantly, valiancy, valiants. | |
-4 letters: actinal, anality, analyst, anticly, canasta, cantala, catlins, nastily, saintly, satanic, scantly, tincals, valiant, vatical. | |
-5 letters: actins, alants, aliyas, antics, anvils, aslant, atavic, avails, avians, canals, canvas, casava, casita, catlin, cavils, cavity, inlays, instal, lanais, lianas, linacs, litany, nasial, nastic, nyalas, salina, saliva, salvia, sancta, sanity, satiny, savant, scanty, silvan, slanty, sylvan, sylvin, ticals, tincal, vacant, vainly, vanity, vastly, vinals, vincas, vinyls, vitals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-n-s-t-v-y" | |
+4 letters: intravascularly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 73 61 6C 43 61 76 69 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110110 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a s a l   C a v i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0073 0061 006C 0043 0061 0076 0069 0074 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48678567782376788758691 |
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