Meatuses of the nose |
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Meatus |
Features |
Drainage |
Inferior meatus n. |
Largest of all the three situated below inferior concha |
Nasolacrimal duct |
Middle meatus n. |
Lies underneath middle concha |
a) Opening of maxillary sinus at hiatus
semilunaris b) Opening of middle ethmoidal air sinus c) Opening of frontal sinus |
Superior meatus n. |
Shallow smallest of all |
Opening of posterior ethmoidal air sinus |