nasal cavity

1. 1.

   either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx

   Broadercavity

   Part ofnoseupper respiratory tract

   Partsneuroepithelium

Questions about nasal cavity

What does nasal cavity mean?

nasal cavity means "either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx".

Is nasal cavity a common word?

nasal cavity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.