Nasal bone

Os nasale

  • Bone
  • Head
  • Single, on the midline
  • Horse

About the nasal bone of the horse

Nasal bone is a bone of the head (head), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Os nasale. You can turn it above, see it in place in the head of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Terminology

English
Nasal bone
Latin (NAV)
Os nasale
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

Questions about the nasal bone

What is the Latin name of the nasal bone?
In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the nasal bone is called Os nasale.
Where is the nasal bone of the horse?
Nasal bone is a bone of the head (head), a single structure on the midline.

See the nasal bone inside the whole horse.

Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.

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