Posterior Ethmoid Roof

The cubical bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction.
Posterior ethmoid roof. From greek ethmos sieve is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. Onodi cells are important to identify preoperatively because the optic nerve traverses the roof of these cells. The posterior ethmoid skull base was 14 08 3 03 mm. Intracranially the ethmoidal canals open on the suture between the orbital part of the frontal bone and the cribriform plate.
The ethmoid bone is one of the bones that make up the orbit of the eye. The orbital opening of the ethmoidal canals are located at the junction of the roof and medial wall of the orbit along the frontoethmoid suture formed by the medial edge of the orbital plate of the frontal bone above and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid below see fig. The ethmoid bone is a single midline bone that forms the roof and lateral walls of the upper nasal cavity the upper portion of the nasal septum and contributes to the medial wall of the orbit figure 7 11 and figure 7 12. It is located at the roof of the nose between the two orbits.
The ethmoid bone ˈ ɛ θ m ɔɪ d. The mean maxillary sinus to posterior ethmoid height ratio was.