Sunday, 20 November 2011

One side of the nose is bigger than the other

I noticed that some people have irregular sides of the nose (or maybe mine also haha). After I took up respiratory system, I learned from my readings that the nasal septum rarely lies in the middle, increasing the size of one half of the nasal cavity and decreasing the other.

What is a nasal septum?
- it is made up of the vomer, septal cartilage, and the vertical plate of ethmoid
- it divides the nasal cavity into right and left

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