Semilunar hiatus
Semilunar hiatus | |
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Details | |
Identifiers | |
Latin | hiatus semilunaris |
TA98 | A06.1.02.028 A02.1.07.018 |
TA2 | 739, 3153 |
FMA | 77281 75057, 77281 |
Anatomical terminology |
The semilunar hiatus (eg, hiatus semilunaris) is a crescent-shaped[anterior ethmoidal sinus. It is bounded inferiorly and anteriorly by the sharp concave margin of the uncinate process of the ethmoid bone, superiorly by the ethmoidal bulla, and posteriorly by the ethmoidal process of the inferior nasal concha.[4] It leads into the ethmoidal infundibulum;[5] it marks the medial limit of the ethmoidal infundibulum.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1496347213.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7295-3752-0.
- ^ OCLC 1201341621.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "Bony semilunar hiatus - e-Anatomy - IMAIOS". www.imaios.com. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
- ^ Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 995.
External links
- Anatomy figure: 33:04-05 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center