Hiatus semilunaris

Hiatus semilunaris
Lateral wall of nasal cavity; the three nasal conchæ have been removed. (Third caption from the top.)
Gray's	subject #223 995
Dorlands/Elsevier	h_11/12422076

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

The hiatus semilunaris is a halfmoon-shaped groove in the lateral wall of the nasal cavity. It is bounded inferiorly and anteriorly by the sharp concave margin of the uncinate process of the ethmoid bone, superiorly by the ethmoidal bulla, and posteriorly by the ethmoidal process of the inferior nasal concha. Following the curve anteriorly leads into the infundibulum of the frontonasal duct, which drains the frontal sinus.

The anterior ethmoidal cells open into the front part of the infundibulum; in slightly over 50% of subjects, this is directly continuous with the frontonasal duct from the frontal air sinus. When the anterior end of the uncinate process fuses with the front part of the bulla, however, this continuity is interrupted and the frontonasal duct then drains directly into the anterior end of the middle meatus.

External links

• SUNY Figs 33:04-05

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