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ants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance. Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals. -- Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion,…

The quality or state of being nasal.

The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.

To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.

In a nasal manner; by the nose.

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

Between the nasal cavities; as, the internasal cartilage.

A labionasal sound or letter.

Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.

Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.

Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.

Same as Prenasal.

Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

imal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Nasal catarrh.

Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.

epression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.