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ethmoid bone
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ethmoid bone

Bone at the root of the nose between the eye sockets, forming part of the skull. The two cribriform plates of the bone form part of the roof of the nose, and have many small perforations through which pass fibres of the cranial nerve concerned with the sense of smell.



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