At the top of the nasal passages is a paper-thin bone called the cribriform plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference

From there it reaches the brain by passing through a porous barrier called the cribriform plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodstream] Reference

This bone is called cribriform (sieve-like), because it is perforated by many minute holes, through which, from the olfactory bulbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

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 lymphatic vessels and some veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The cord, K, is placed on the inner side of the hernia; the cribriform fascia covers it; and the upper end of the saphena vein, M, passes beneath its lower border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

At the same time, its structure becomes more compact, the cribriform appearance of its anterior and lateral faces more or less destroyed, and the few remaining openings apparently increased in size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

He recognized that inspiration is associated with enlargement of the chest, and imagined that air passed inside the skull through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone, and passed out by the same channel, carrying off humours from the brain into the nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

Histologically, the cribriform pattern predominated (6 / 8 cases).    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Occasionally it is cribriform, or its free margin forms a membranous fringe.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3d. 5. The External Organs] Reference

Worms lodging in the cribriform plate of the ethmoid feed on the soft tissues of that region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The surface is cribriform, and a purulent secretion may be pressed out from follicular openings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

The cribriform plate is ossified partly from the perpendicular plate and partly from the labyrinths.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone] Reference

Spontaneous evacuation may take place by the abscess bursting into the nose through the cribriform plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The nose, which has no nerves for its sensation, has a cribriform, or spongy bone, to let odours pass on to the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Existence of God] Reference

In most cases, however, it makes its way still further out, and the next covering it gains is from the cribriform fascia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

—The cribriform plate (Fig. 149) is received into the ethmoidal notch of the frontal bone and roofs in the nasal cavities.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone] Reference

Anterior inferior cribriform area, with (5’) the tractus spiralis foraminosus, and (5’’) the canalis centralis of the cochlea.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 4. The Temporal Bone] Reference

The olfactory nerve is a prolongation of the substance of the brain, and it abuts upon the cribriform bone, of which mention has been made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Its under surface receives the olfactory nerves, which pass upward through the cribriform plate from the olfactory region of the nasal cavity.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon] Reference

There are holes in the cribriform plates called olfactory foramina which allow the axons of the olfactory neurons to reach the olfactory bulb.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

At the front part of the cribriform plate, on either side of the crista galli, is a small fissure which is occupied by a process of dura mater.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone] Reference

The ethmoidal notch separates the two orbital plates; it is quadrilateral, and filled, in the articulated skull, by the cribriform plate of the ethmoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 3. The Frontal Bone] Reference

It consists of a thin lamella, which descends from the under surface of the cribriform plate, and ends below in a free, convoluted margin, the middle nasal concha.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone] Reference

The greater omentum is usually thin, presents a cribriform appearance, and always contains some adipose tissue, which in fat people accumulates in considerable quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen] Reference

On either side of the crista galli, the cribriform plate is narrow and deeply grooved; it supports the olfactory bulb and is perforated by foramina for the passage of the olfactory nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone] Reference

The surfaces of the plate are smooth, except above, where numerous grooves and canals are seen; these lead from the medial foramina on the cribriform plate and lodge filaments of the olfactory nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone] Reference

It consists of four parts: a horizontal or cribriform plate, forming part of the base of the cranium; a perpendicular plate, constituting part of the nasal septum; and two lateral masses or labyrinths.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone] Reference

A layer of olfactory nerve fibers, which are the non-medullated axons prolonged from the olfactory cells of the nasal cavity, and reach the bulb by passing through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon] Reference

The artery lies at first in front of the cochlea and tympanic cavity; from the latter cavity it is separated by a thin, bony lamella, which is cribriform in the young subject, and often partly absorbed in old age.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 3a. 4. The Internal Carotid Artery] Reference

Adults don’t get infected, because their cribriform plates are sealed over, protecting their brains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodstream] Reference

(a) The olfactory bulb (bulbus olfactorius) is an oval, reddish-gray mass which rests on the cribriform plate of the ethmoid and forms the anterior expanded extremity of the olfactory tract.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon] Reference

This valve may be double or it may be cribriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart] Reference

"And highly cribriform superficies --" cried Barbican.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Around the Moon] Reference