Anatom3DRight inferior nasal concha
Concha nasalis inferior dextra · Pravá dolní nosní skořepa
Skeleton
Looks like
A thin curled bone, like a scroll, along the lower side wall of each nasal cavity, covered with thick spongy lining.
What it does
Warms, moistens and filters the air you breathe; its lining swells and shrinks in a cycle, switching airflow between nostrils.
Keeping it well
Swelling of its lining (allergy, colds, overuse of decongestant sprays) blocks the nose. Persistent one-sided blockage needs an ENT check.
Related conditions
- Achondroplasia
- Acromegaly
- Brain abscess
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Sarcoma
- Traumatic brain injury (moderate to severe)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency