Word Meanings - ALINASAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

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• CARTILAGE
  A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
• NASALLY
  In a nasal manner; by the nose.
• NASALIZE
  To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.
• NASALITY
  The quality or state of being nasal.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NASALIZATION
  The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.
• NASAL
  Of or pertaining to the nose.
• FIBROCARTILAGE
  A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
• PRAENASAL
  See PRENASAL
• PRENASAL
  Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.
• LABIONASAL
  Formed by the lips and the nose. -- n.
• SUBNASAL
  Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.
• MESONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.
• ALINASAL
  Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
• OCULONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.
• ORBITONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
• INTERNASAL
  Between the nasal cavities; as, the internasal cartilage.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach