Anatom3DNose & sinuses
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Respiratory system
Looks like
A cartilage and bone frame over two passages lined with moist, vessel-rich skin and scroll-shaped shelves.
What it does
Warms, wets and filters the air, and carries smell.
Keeping it well
Humid air, saline rinses in dry weather. Pinch the soft part for ten minutes to stop a nosebleed.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Allergic rhinitis (hay fever)
- Aspergillosis
- Common cold
- COVID-19
- Deviated nasal septum
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Gout
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Influenza
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Loss of smell (anosmia)
- Lyme disease
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Nasal polyps
- Nosebleed (epistaxis)
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rosacea
- Sarcoma
- Sinusitis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency