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typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Conchanasalismedius.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Conchanasalismedius.PNG/250px-Conchanasalismedius.PNG" decoding="async" width="250" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Conchanasalismedius.PNG/375px-Conchanasalismedius.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Conchanasalismedius.PNG/500px-Conchanasalismedius.PNG 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="501" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Lateral wall of nasal cavity, showing <a href="/wiki/Ethmoid_bone" title="Ethmoid bone">ethmoid bone</a> in position. (Middle nasal concha is at bottom of pink region.)</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Details</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Identifiers</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>concha media</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Terminologia_Anatomica" title="Terminologia Anatomica">TA98</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ifaa.unifr.ch/Public/EntryPage/TA98%20Tree/Entity%20TA98%20EN/06.1.02.014%20Entity%20TA98%20EN.htm">A06.1.02.014</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ifaa.unifr.ch/Public/EntryPage/TA98%20Tree/Entity%20TA98%20EN/02.1.07.014%20Entity%20TA98%20EN.htm">A02.1.07.014</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Terminologia_Anatomica" title="Terminologia Anatomica">TA2</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ta2viewer.openanatomy.org/?id=735">735</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Foundational_Model_of_Anatomy" title="Foundational Model of Anatomy">FMA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/FMA/?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fsig%2Font%2Ffma%2Ffma57459">57459</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><a href="/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_bone" title="Anatomical terms of bone">Anatomical terms of bone</a><div style="text-align: right;"><small class="noprint">[<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718595" class="extiw" title="d:Q718595">edit on Wikidata</a>]</small></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The medial surface of the <a href="/wiki/Labyrinth_of_ethmoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Labyrinth of ethmoid">labyrinth of ethmoid</a> consists of a thin <a href="/wiki/Lamella_(zoology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lamella (zoology)">lamella</a>, which descends from the under surface of the <a href="/wiki/Cribriform_plate" title="Cribriform plate">cribriform plate</a>, and ends below in a free, convoluted margin, the <b>middle nasal concha</b> (<b>middle nasal turbinate</b>). </p><p>It is rough, and marked above by numerous grooves, directed nearly vertically downward from the cribriform plate; they lodge branches of the <a href="/wiki/Olfactory_nerves" class="mw-redirect" title="Olfactory nerves">olfactory nerves</a>, which are distributed to the <a href="/wiki/Mucous_membrane" title="Mucous membrane">mucous membrane</a> covering the <a href="/wiki/Superior_nasal_concha" title="Superior nasal concha">superior nasal concha</a>. </p><p>The middle turbinates insert anteriorly into the <a href="/wiki/Frontal_process_of_maxilla" title="Frontal process of maxilla">frontal process</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Maxilla" title="Maxilla">maxilla</a> and posteriorly into the <a href="/wiki/Perpendicular_plate_of_palatine_bone" title="Perpendicular plate of palatine bone">perpendicular plate</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Palatine_bone" title="Palatine bone">palatine bone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are three mutually perpendicular segments of the middle turbinate: from proximal to distal, there is the horizontal segment (<a href="/wiki/Transverse_plane" title="Transverse plane">axial plane</a>), the basal lamella (<a href="/wiki/Coronal_plane" title="Coronal plane">coronal plane</a>), and the vertical segment (<a href="/wiki/Sagittal_plane" title="Sagittal plane">sagittal plane</a>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Additional_images">Additional images</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Middle_nasal_concha&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Additional images"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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eminence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_occipital_protuberance" title="Internal occipital protuberance">Internal occipital protuberance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_occipital_crest" title="Internal occipital crest">Internal occipital crest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groove_for_transverse_sinus" title="Groove for transverse sinus">Groove for transverse sinus</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lateral_parts_of_occipital_bone" title="Lateral parts of occipital bone">Lateral parts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occipital_condyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Occipital condyle">Condyle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Condyloid_fossa" title="Condyloid fossa">Condyloid fossa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Condylar_canal" title="Condylar canal">Condylar canal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Foramen_magnum" title="Foramen magnum">Foramen magnum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basion" class="mw-redirect" title="Basion">Basion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opisthion" class="mw-redirect" title="Opisthion">Opisthion</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Parietal_bone" title="Parietal bone">Parietal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parietal_eminence" title="Parietal eminence">Parietal eminence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temporal_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Temporal line">Temporal line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parietal_foramina" title="Parietal foramina">Parietal foramen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagittal_sulcus" title="Sagittal sulcus">Sagittal sulcus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagittal_keel" title="Sagittal keel">Sagittal keel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagittal_crest" title="Sagittal crest">Sagittal crest</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Frontal_bone" title="Frontal bone">Frontal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Squama_frontalis" class="mw-redirect" title="Squama frontalis">Squamous part</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frontal_suture" title="Frontal suture">Frontal suture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontal_eminence" title="Frontal eminence">Frontal eminence</a></li> <li><i>external</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Superciliary_arches" class="mw-redirect" title="Superciliary arches">Superciliary arches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glabella" title="Glabella">Glabella</a></li></ul></li> <li><i>foramina</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supraorbital_foramen" title="Supraorbital foramen">Supraorbital foramen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brow_ridge" title="Brow ridge">Brow ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foramen_cecum_(frontal_bone)" title="Foramen cecum (frontal bone)">Foramen cecum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zygomatic_process_of_frontal_bone" class="mw-redirect" title="Zygomatic process of frontal bone">Zygomatic process</a></li> <li><i>internal</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sagittal_sulcus" title="Sagittal sulcus">Sagittal sulcus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontal_crest" title="Frontal crest">Frontal crest</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_part_of_frontal_bone" title="Orbital part of frontal bone">Orbital part</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ethmoidal_notch" title="Ethmoidal notch">Ethmoidal notch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fossa_for_lacrimal_gland" title="Fossa for lacrimal gland">Fossa for lacrimal gland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trochlear_fovea" title="Trochlear fovea">Trochlear fovea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontal_sinus" title="Frontal sinus">Frontal sinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontonasal_duct" title="Frontonasal duct">Frontonasal duct</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Temporal_bone" title="Temporal bone">Temporal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Squama_temporalis" class="mw-redirect" title="Squama temporalis">Squamous part</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Articular_tubercle" title="Articular tubercle">Articular tubercle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suprameatal_triangle" title="Suprameatal triangle">Suprameatal triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandibular_fossa" title="Mandibular fossa">Mandibular fossa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrotympanic_fissure" title="Petrotympanic fissure">Petrotympanic fissure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zygomatic_process_of_temporal_bone" class="mw-redirect" title="Zygomatic process of temporal bone">Zygomatic process</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mastoid_part_of_the_temporal_bone" title="Mastoid part of the temporal bone">Mastoid part</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mastoid_foramen" title="Mastoid foramen">Mastoid foramen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mastoid_process" class="mw-redirect" title="Mastoid process">Mastoid process</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mastoid_cells" title="Mastoid cells">Mastoid cells</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mastoid_notch" class="mw-redirect" title="Mastoid notch">Mastoid notch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occipital_groove" class="mw-redirect" title="Occipital groove">Occipital groove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigmoid_sulcus" title="Sigmoid sulcus">Sigmoid sulcus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mastoid_antrum" title="Mastoid antrum">Mastoid antrum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aditus_to_mastoid_antrum" title="Aditus to mastoid antrum">Aditus</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Petrous_part_of_the_temporal_bone" title="Petrous part of the temporal bone">Petrous part</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carotid_canal" title="Carotid canal">Carotid canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Facial_canal" title="Facial canal">Facial canal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hiatus_for_greater_petrosal_nerve" title="Hiatus for greater petrosal nerve">Hiatus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_auditory_meatus" title="Internal auditory meatus">Internal auditory meatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cochlear_aqueduct" title="Cochlear aqueduct">Cochlear aqueduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stylomastoid_foramen" title="Stylomastoid foramen">Stylomastoid foramen</a></li> <li><i>fossae</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Subarcuate_fossa" title="Subarcuate fossa">Subarcuate fossa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jugular_fossa" title="Jugular fossa">Jugular fossa</a></li></ul></li> <li><i>canaliculi</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inferior_tympanic_canaliculus" class="mw-redirect" title="Inferior tympanic canaliculus">Inferior tympanic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mastoid_canaliculus" title="Mastoid canaliculus">Mastoid</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temporal_styloid_process" title="Temporal styloid process">Styloid process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrosquamous_suture" title="Petrosquamous suture">Petrosquamous suture</a></li> <li><i>(note: <a href="/wiki/Ossicles" title="Ossicles">ossicles</a> in petrous part, but not part of temporal bone)</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tympanic_part_of_the_temporal_bone" title="Tympanic part of the temporal bone">Tympanic part</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suprameatal_spine" title="Suprameatal spine">Suprameatal spine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sphenoid_bone" title="Sphenoid bone">Sphenoid</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Surfaces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Superior surface:</i> <a href="/wiki/Sella_turcica" title="Sella turcica">Sella turcica</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorsum_sellae" title="Dorsum sellae">Dorsum sellae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuberculum_sellae" title="Tuberculum sellae">Tuberculum sellae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypophysial_fossa" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypophysial fossa">Hypophysial fossa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Posterior_clinoid_processes" title="Posterior clinoid processes">Posterior clinoid processes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethmoidal_spine" title="Ethmoidal spine">Ethmoidal spine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiasmatic_groove" title="Chiasmatic groove">Chiasmatic groove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_clinoid_process" title="Middle clinoid process">Middle clinoid process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrosal_process" title="Petrosal process">Petrosal process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clivus_(anatomy)" title="Clivus (anatomy)">Clivus</a></li> <li><i>Lateral surface:</i> <a href="/wiki/Carotid_groove" title="Carotid groove">Carotid groove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sphenoidal_lingula" title="Sphenoidal lingula">Sphenoidal lingula</a></li> <li><i>Anterior surface:</i> <a href="/wiki/Sphenoidal_sinus" class="mw-redirect" title="Sphenoidal sinus">Sphenoidal sinuses</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greater_wing_of_sphenoid_bone" title="Greater wing of sphenoid bone">Great wings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>foramina</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Foramen_rotundum" title="Foramen rotundum">Rotundum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foramen_ovale_(skull)" title="Foramen ovale (skull)">Ovale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sphenoidal_emissary_foramen" title="Sphenoidal emissary foramen">Vesalii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foramen_spinosum" title="Foramen spinosum">Spinosum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spine_of_sphenoid_bone" title="Spine of sphenoid bone">Spine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infratemporal_crest" title="Infratemporal crest">Infratemporal crest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulcus_of_auditory_tube" title="Sulcus of auditory tube">Sulcus of auditory tube</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lesser_wing_of_sphenoid_bone" title="Lesser wing of sphenoid bone">Small wings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Superior_orbital_fissure" title="Superior orbital fissure">Superior orbital fissure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anterior_clinoid_process" title="Anterior clinoid process">Anterior clinoid process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optic_canal" title="Optic canal">Optic canal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pterygoid_processes_of_the_sphenoid" title="Pterygoid processes of the sphenoid">Pterygoid<br />processes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>fossae</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pterygoid_fossa" title="Pterygoid fossa">Pterygoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scaphoid_fossa" title="Scaphoid fossa">Scaphoid</a></li></ul></li> <li><i>pterygoid plates</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lateral_pterygoid_plate" class="mw-redirect" 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plates</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cribriform_plate" title="Cribriform plate">Cribriform plate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crista_galli" title="Crista galli">Crista galli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olfactory_foramina" title="Olfactory foramina">Olfactory foramina</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perpendicular_plate_of_ethmoid_bone" title="Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone">Perpendicular plate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Surfaces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Lateral surface</i> <a href="/wiki/Orbital_lamina_of_ethmoid_bone" title="Orbital lamina of ethmoid bone">Orbital lamina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncinate_process_of_ethmoid_bone" title="Uncinate process of ethmoid bone">Uncinate process</a></li> <li><i>Medial surface</i> <a href="/wiki/Supreme_nasal_concha" title="Supreme nasal concha">Supreme nasal concha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superior_nasal_concha" title="Superior nasal concha">Superior nasal concha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superior_meatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Superior meatus">Superior meatus</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Middle nasal concha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_meatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle meatus">Middle meatus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Labyrinth_of_ethmoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Labyrinth of ethmoid">Labyrinth</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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