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Lower nasal concha
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Lower nasal concha (concha nasalis inferior) - a pair, thin curved plate, has a body and three processes. The lateral surface of the body with its upper edge is fused with the shell crest of the upper jaw and perpendicular plate of the palatine bone. All the processes of this shell depart from its upper edge.
The lacrimal processus (processus lacrimalis) rises to the lacrimal bone, the maxillary processus (processus maxillaris) directed downward. It partially closes the maxillary cleft. On the posterior margin of the shell is located a latticed processus (processus ethmoidalis), which goes upward and joins the hook-shaped process of the latticed bone.
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