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Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man..

Rhinitis :: Rhinitis (n.) Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils..

Dipnoi :: Dipnoi (n. pl.) A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix..

Snort :: Snort (v. t.) To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.

Ozena :: Ozena (n.) A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose..

Apophlegmatic :: Apophlegmatic (a.) Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils.

Berna Fly :: Berna fly () A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae do great injury..

Narine :: Narine (a.) Of or belonging to the nostrils.

Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..

Nostril :: Nostril (n.) One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares..

Blowhole :: Blowhole (n.) A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

Tube-nosed :: Tube-nosed (a.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.

Expire :: Expire (v. t.) To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

Pomarine :: Pomarine (a.) Having the nostril covered with a scale.

Vomer :: Vomer (n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals..

Nose :: Nose (n.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory..

Nares :: Nares (n. pl.) The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx..

Siphorhinal :: Siphorhinal (a.) Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels..

Fossa :: Fossa (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds..

Pip :: Pip (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a scale on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them..

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