alar cartilage

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alar cartilage

1. Either of a pair of cartilages that form the tip of the nose; greater alar cartilage.

2. Any of the cartilaginous plates of the wing of the nose posterior to the greater alar cartilage; lesser alar cartilage.

alar

1. pertaining to or like a wing.

2. pertaining to the axilla.

alar cartilage

a nasal cartilage which supports the rim of the nostril of some animals such as the horse.

alar fold

extends from the nostril to the ventral nasal concha. It forms the medial and ventral walls of the false nostril in the horse.

alar foramen

a third foramen which perforates the wing of the atlas in some animal species.

alar plate

dorsal bulge of the embryonic neural tube, destined to develop into the dorsal horn of the spinal cord.

rostral alar fold

one of a group of foramina in the caudal part of the orbit.

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