Nasal cavity

Dr. Mini Mol P.

Assistant Professor
Dept Anatomy
MGMSBS
The external nose
2 openings called nostrils separated by nasal
septum
Frontal
The nasal cavities
 NASAL CAVITY
• The anterior
apertures of the nasal
cavities are nares,

• The posterior
apertures are the
choana
• Nasal cavity
1. roof
2.floor
3.medial wall
4.lateral wall
 Roof
Formed by :
1. nasal and frontal
bones,
2. cribriform plate
of the ethmoid
bone
3. posteriorly
sphenoid Bone.
 Floor
• hard palate.
 Medial Wall
• Nasal septum
osseocartilagenous
partition,separates
nasal cavities .

• Bony part

• Cartilaginous part
Lateral Wall
Features Of Lateral Wall
1. Ant. Part – Vestibule

2. Middle part – atrium

3. Post. Part – Conchae (turbinates)

Features Of Lateral Wall
LATERAL WALL OF NASAL CAVITY

1. Superior concha.
2. Middle concha.
3. Inferior concha.

* The space below each of

these conchae is called
nasal meatus.
 Features of the middle meatus:
• presents a rounded
eminence called
bulla ethmoidalis

• which is bounded in
front and below by a
curved groove called
hiatus semilunaris.
Openings in the lat. wall of Nose
Lining of Nasal Cavity
 Arteries of nasal cavity:
1. Sphenopalatine
artery.
Branches of
maxillary artery

2. Septal branch: from

facial artery.

3. ethmoidal
branches: from
Ophthalmic artery.
bleeding from the
nose (epistaxis).
 Nerves of nasal cavity:
1. Sensory: ophthalmic
division (V1) and
maxillary division (V2)
of the trigeminal nerve

2. Olfactory nerve: It is
the nerve of smell. It
supplies the olfactory
mucosa which is
situated in the roof of
the nasal cavity.
 clinical
• DNS

• EPISTAXIS
clinical
References
• B D Chaurasia's Human Anatomy : Head and Neck, Brain
(Volume - 3) by Krishna Garg.
• Textbook of anatomy head neck and brain vishram singh
volume 3.