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  2. Nasal vestibulitis - Wikipedia

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    Although the disease is easily treatable, in severe cases boils may form inside the nostrils, which can cause cellulitis at the tip of the nose. The condition becomes serious because veins at that region of the face lead to the brain, and if bacteria spreads to the brain via these veins, the person may develop a life-threatening condition called cavernous sinus thrombosis, which is an ...

  3. Nosebleed - Wikipedia

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    A nosebleed, also known as epistaxis, is an instance of bleeding from the nose. [1] Blood can flow down into the stomach, and cause nausea and vomiting . [ 8 ] In more severe cases, blood may come out of both nostrils . [ 9 ]

  4. Emergency bleeding control - Wikipedia

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    Epistaxis, or nosebleed, is a special case, where almost all first aid providers train the use of pressure points. The appropriate point here is on the soft fleshy part of the nose, which should constrict the capillaries sufficiently to stop bleeding, although obviously it does not stop bleeding from the nasopharynx or tear ducts .

  5. Nasolacrimal duct obstruction - Wikipedia

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    Involutional stenosis is probably the most common cause of nasolacrimal duct obstruction in older people. It affects women twice as frequently as men. Although the inciting event in this process is unknown, clinicopathologic study suggests that compression of the lumen of the nasolacrimal duct is caused by inflammatory infiltrates and edema.

  6. Chronic atrophic rhinitis - Wikipedia

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    Chronic atrophic rhinitis, or simply atrophic rhinitis, is a chronic inflammation of the nose characterised by atrophy of nasal mucosa, including the glands, turbinate bones and the nerve elements supplying the nose. Chronic atrophic rhinitis may be primary and secondary. Special forms of chronic atrophic rhinitis are rhinitis sicca anterior ...

  7. Nasal septal hematoma - Wikipedia

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    Nasal septal hematoma is a condition affecting the nasal septum. [1] It can be associated with trauma. [2]A septal hematoma is blood that collects in the space between the septal cartilage and the overlying perichondrium (a cross section of the cartilaginous portion of the nasal septum).

  8. Rhinolith - Wikipedia

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    A rhinolith (from rhino- 'nose' and -lith 'stone') is a stone present in the nasal cavity.It is an uncommon medical phenomenon, not to be confused with dried nasal mucus.

  9. Pulmonary hemorrhage - Wikipedia

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    Infant prematurity is the factor most commonly associated with pulmonary hemorrhage. Other associated factors are those that predisposed to perinatal asphyxia or bleeding disorders, including toxemia of pregnancy, maternal cocaine use, erythroblastosis fetalis, breech delivery, hypothermia, infection (like pulmonary tuberculosis), Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS), administration of ...