ethmoid

About 0.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A light spongy cubical bone at the root of the nose, forming much of the walls of the nasal cavity and part of those of the orbits and having many perforations through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nose.
2. adjective Of or pertaining to the ethmoid bone.

Similar words

bulla ethmoid bone ethmoid sinus mesethmoid dermethmoid turbinate bone nasal nasal cavity sinus ethmoidectomy

Often followed by

bone cells sinuses sinus and air bones region labyrinth

Word family

ethmoidal ethmoids