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The ethmoid air cells consist of numerous thin-walled cavities in the ethmoidal labyrinth [4] that represent invaginations of the mucous membrane of the nasal wall into the ethmoid bone. [3] They are situated between the superior parts of the nasal cavities and the orbits, and are separated from these cavities by thin bony lamellae. [4]
The ethmoidal labyrinth or lateral mass of the ethmoid bone consists of a number of thin-walled cellular cavities, the ethmoid air cells, arranged in three groups, anterior, middle, and posterior, and interposed between two vertical plates of bone; the lateral plate forms part of the orbit, the medial plate forms part of the nasal cavity.
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The ethmoid bone (/ ˈ ɛ θ m ɔɪ d /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek: ἡθμός, romanized: hēthmós, lit. 'sieve') is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. It is located at the roof of the nose, between the two orbits. The cubical bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction.
The orbital lamina of ethmoid bone (or lamina papyracea or orbital lamina) is a smooth, oblong, [citation needed] paper-thin [1] bone plate [citation needed] which forms the lateral wall of the labyrinth of the ethmoid bone. [1] It covers the middle and posterior ethmoidal cells, and forms a large part of [citation needed] the medial wall of ...
The ethmoidal infundibulum is a funnel-shaped [1] /slit-like [2]: 690 /curved [3] opening [1] /passage [4] /space [2]: 690 /cleft [3] upon the anterosuperior portion of the middle nasal meatus [1] (and thus of the lateral wall of [2] the nasal cavity [1]) at the hiatus semilunaris [3] [5] (which represents the medial extremity of the infundibulum [2]).
The ethmoid bulla (or ethmoidal bulla) is a rounded elevation upon the lateral wall of the middle nasal meatus [1] [2]: 377 (nasal cavity inferior to the middle nasal concha) produced by one or more of the underlying middle ethmoidal air cells (which open into the nasal cavity upon or superior to the ethmoidal bulla [2]: 374 [3]).
It is also called the nasoturbinal concha and the nasal ridge. In 90% of patients an anterior ethmoidal cell (called the "agger nasi cell") can be found in the lacrimal bone below the agger nasi ridge. [1] An enlarged agger nasi cell may encroach the frontal recess area, constricting it and causing mechanical obstruction to frontal sinus drainage.