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Pierced with small holes like a sieve.

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  • At the top of the nasal passages is a paper-thin bone called the cribriform plate.
  • From there it reaches the brain by passing through a porous barrier called the cribriform plate.
  • This bone is called cribriform (sieve-like), because it is perforated by many minute holes, through which, from the olfactory bulbs
  • Where this superficial fascia overlies the saphenous opening, E, of the fascia lata, it assumes a "cribriform" character, owing to its being pierced by numerous...
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