nasal vs nasal bone

nasal

noun
  • A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc. 

  • The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion. 

  • Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng. 

  • Sharp, penetrating. 

  • Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage. 

nasal bone

noun
  • Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity. 

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