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The middle meatus is the middle-sized and located nasal opening, lying underneath the middle concha and above the inferior concha where the meatus extends along its length. On it is a curved fissure, the hiatus semilunaris, limited below by the edge of the uncinate process of the ethmoid and above by an elevation named the bulla ethmoidalis ...
The maxillary hiatus (also known as maxillary sinus ostium, maxillary ostium, or opening from the maxillary sinus) [citation needed] is the opening of a maxillary sinus into the middle nasal meatus of the nasal cavity.
The semilunar hiatus (eg, hiatus semilunaris) is a crescent-shaped [citation needed] /semicircular/ [1] curved [2] slit [2] /groove [1] upon the lateral wall of the nasal cavity [3] at the middle nasal meatus just inferior to the ethmoidal bulla. [2] It is the location of the openings for the frontal sinus, maxillary sinus, and anterior ...
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 maxillary sinus is the largest of the sinuses and drains into the middle meatus. Most of the ostia open into the middle meatus and the anterior ethmoid, that together are termed the ostiomeatal complex. [32] Adults have a high concentration of cilia in the ostia. The cilia in the sinuses beat towards the openings into the nasal cavity.
The frontonasal duct passes inferior-ward [5] to open either [3] into the middle nasal meatus at the anterior end of [3] the ethmoidal infundibulum, [3] [5] [2] or into the anterior ethmoidal air cells (which then in turn drain into the nasal cavity). [3] The duct is lined by mucous membrane. [citation needed]
The middle ethmoidal cells drain directly into the middle nasal meatus. [3] The posterior ethmoidal cells drain directly into the superior nasal meatus [3] [5] at the sphenoethmoidal recess; [5] sometimes, one or more opens into the sphenoidal sinus. [4]
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]).