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Tissues > Connective Tissue > Bone and Bones > Skull > Ethmoid Bone
Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Bone and Bones > Skull > Ethmoid Bone

Preferred term

Ethmoid Bone  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Horizontal Plate of Ethmoid Bone

Note

  • fractures: coordinate ETHMOID BONE /inj (IM) + SKULL FRACTURES (IM); neoplasms: coordinate IM with SKULL NEOPLASMS (IM)

Scope note

  • A light and spongy (pneumatized) bone that lies between the orbital part of FRONTAL BONE and the anterior of SPHENOID BONE. Ethmoid bone separates the ORBIT from the ETHMOID SINUS. It consists of a horizontal plate, a perpendicular plate, and two lateral labyrinths.

History note

  • CRIBRIFORM PLATE was see under ETHMOID BONE 1963-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005004

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