FUNCTIONAL SEPARATION. “The primary nose fully opens behind a virtual, coronal plane through the anterior palatine canal, into both the respiratory and olfactory noses. Respiratory and olfactory noses are separated from each other by the transverse lamina, a thin, bony axial structure.”
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