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Ethmoid bulla
Lateral wall of nasal cavity; the three nasal conchæ have been removed. (Bulla ethmoidalis is labeled at center top.)
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Identifiers
Latinbulla ethmoidalis
TA98A06.1.02.026
A02.1.07.015
TA23150, 736
FMA57487
Anatomical terminology

On the lateral wall of the middle meatus is a curved fissure, the hiatus semilunaris, limited below by the edge of the uncinate process of the ethmoid and above by an elevation named the bulla ethmoidalis; the middle ethmoidal cells are contained within this bulla and open on or near to it.

The bulla ethmoidalis is caused by the bulging of the middle ethmoidal cells which open on or immediately above it, and the size of the bulla varies with that of its contained cells.

  • Anatomy photo:22:os-1115 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
  • Wright ED, Bolger WE (2001). "The bulla ethmoidalis: [[lamella]] or a true cell?". J Otolaryngol. 30 (3): 162–6. doi:10.2310/7070.2001.20206. PMID 11771046. {{cite journal}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 195 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)