(anatomy) Synonym of nasal septum

(anatomy) A small muscle of each side of the upper lip that is inserted into the nasal septum and wing of the nose on each side and constricts the nasal opening by drawing the wing downward.

(anatomy) A muscle of the face that arises from the nasal process of the maxilla, that passes downward and laterally, that divides into a part inserting into the alar cartilage and one inserting into the upper lip and that dilates the nostril and elevates the upper lip.

(rare) plural of levator labii superioris alaeque nasi

The point at the root of the nose where the frontal and two nasal bones meet.

plural of nasion

(zoology, rare) Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros does.

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal white mineral containing boron, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.

One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.

Designating the 1232 work of ethics, Akhlaq-i Nāṣirī (Nasirean Ethics), by the Persian polymath Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274).