nasal meatus

1. 1.

   the passages in the nasal cavity formed by the projections of the nasal conchae

   Broadermeatus

Questions about nasal meatus

What does nasal meatus mean?

nasal meatus means "the passages in the nasal cavity formed by the projections of the nasal conchae".

Is nasal meatus a common word?

nasal meatus 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.