Sentences with phrase «small nasal cavities»
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«It could offer a smaller, and thus more comfortable, instrument for imaging within the nasal cavity, for example.»
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Pheromones are detected by the vomeronasal organ, a small opening at the back of the nasal cavity of many mammals.
Smell or olfaction occurs when chemicals stimulate olfactory receptors on a relatively small patch of tissue located high in the nasal cavity.
Additional testing may include testing of blood and tissue samples, diagnostic imaging such as ultrasound and radiography, biopsies of masses, internal organs or bone marrow, and endoscopy including; bronchoscopy (lungs), cystoscopy (bladder & urethra), colonoscopy (colon & small bowel), gastroduodenoscopy (stomach & upper intestines), rhinoscopy (nasal cavity), laparoscopy (minimally invasive surgery for biopsies of internal organs).
Some of the organs in these systems are the oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon), liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra, nasal cavity, trachea, bronchi, lungs, uterus, ovaries, prostate, vulva, prepuce, thyroid gland, adrenal gland, parathyroid gland, pituitary gland, lymph nodes, and lymphatic vessels.
However, surgery alone is rarely effective to treat nasal adenocarcinoma, because it is virtually impossible to surgically resect all abnormal tissue in the small, confined spaces of the nasal cavities.
CT on the other hand is very sensitive in evaluating the small bones in the nose, the thin bone that separates the nasal cavity from the brain, and the bulla of the middle ear.
The use of a small flexible bronchoscope to examine and obtain a biopsy of an infected area inside the nasal cavity or sinus is another effective diagnostic technique.
In 2015, Dr. Marnin Forman repeated a CT scan and rhinoscopy and found (and removed) a small piece of plastic in his nasal cavity!
For example, rabbits with severe rhinitis can have destruction of the small bones (turbinates) within the nasal cavity.