Developing nasal cavity, light micrograph

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Light micrograph of a frontal section of the nasal cavity of a rat embryo showing the medial septum, the nasal conchae, or turbinate, and, at the top of the cavity, the olfactory mucosa. On both sides of the nasal cavity are two sections of maxillary sinuses with many glands.

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Photo credit: © JOSE CALVO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: -, animal, biological, biology, cavity, cell, concha, developmental, embryological, embryology, epithelium, healthy, histological, histology, light, lm, micrograph, microscope, microscopy, nasal, normal, olfactory, section, sectioned, turbinate