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Thin vertical midline plate. Contributes to superior bony nasal septum. Continuous superiorly with the ethmoid complex.
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Perpendicular plate of ethmoid: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.
Image: OpenStax College · Source / original · CC BY 4.0Numbered markers and focused views are Mediveerse learning overlays; the original reference is linked above.
Perpendicular plate of ethmoid
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Thin vertical midline plate.
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How to recognise it.
- Thin vertical midline plate
- Contributes to superior bony nasal septum
- Continuous superiorly with the ethmoid complex
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Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.
01Identify perpendicular plate of ethmoid and justify your identification.+
Thin vertical midline plate. Contributes to superior bony nasal septum. Continuous superiorly with the ethmoid complex.
02Which structure does it help form?+
The bony nasal septum.
03What is the other major septal bone?+
Vomer, principally posteroinferiorly.
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