Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Nasal bone

Paired small bones forming the bridge of the nose.

Key points

• Bridge of the nose.
• Commonest facial fracture.
• Considered open (mucoperiosteum).
• Nasal bone: membrane over the nasal capsule.
• Bone: type I collagen + hydroxyapatite.
• Osteoblast builds, osteocyte maintains, osteoclast resorbs.

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Features · Histology · Development · Clinical notes

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1487, 1501
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 10, PDF pp. 140–141
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 7, PDF pp. 121–125, 130

More from the head and neck

• Occipital bone
• Occipital lobe
• Occipitofrontalis
• Oculomotor nerve
• Olfactory nerve
• Omohyoid
• Ophthalmic artery
• Ophthalmic nerve
• Ophthalmic veins
• Optic nerve
• Orbicularis oculi
• Orbicularis oris

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