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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nasal
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nasal twang
▪ a nasal twang
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cavity
▪ And because of its reduced nasal cavities it may find breathing increasingly difficult as it grows older.
▪ In this circumstance, nasopharyngeal electrodes inserted through the nasal cavity may show the epileptic activity more clearly.
▪ If people have a bad cold, the nasal cavity gets blocked up and so they can not say the sounds properly.
discharge
▪ In more severe cases dyspnoea and tenacious nasal discharge are also present.
▪ A history of purulent nasal discharge may be obtained in headaches resulting from sinus disease.
▪ The nasal discharge and the discharge from the abscesses is highly infectious and this is how strangles is spread to other horses.
▪ Watery nasal discharge and obstruction goes from left to right nostril.
▪ However in heavy infections coughing is marked, and is accompanied by dyspnoea and nasal discharge.
▪ Relief often comes with a discharge such as the menses or a nasal discharge etc.
passage
▪ Similarly, many scientists argue that dinosaurs developed extensive nasal passages with membranes to cool their skin surfaces.
▪ The bug, called enterococcus, lives in the nasal passages and intestines of many healthy people, causing no harm.
▪ The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time.
▪ In 1761 J. Hill associated cancer of the nasal passages with the immoderate use of snuff.
▪ Surgery involves opening the sinus from the outside, flushing and allowing free drainage into the nasal passage.
▪ Eucalyptus oil will also help patients with a cold as it clears nasal passages.
▪ Doreen was a girl who always sounded as though her nasal passages were obstructed or her throat sore.
spray
▪ Half then used a nasal spray for a further 10 days, while half used a placebo spray.
voice
▪ Plumfield continued talking in a nasal voice and she decided that he must be a demon to live with.
▪ Above the murmuring of the crowd in the lobby burst one angry nasal voice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ clogged nasal passages
▪ Miller's nasal country twang reveals his Georgia origins.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And because of its reduced nasal cavities it may find breathing increasingly difficult as it grows older.
▪ Doreen was a girl who always sounded as though her nasal passages were obstructed or her throat sore.
▪ Half then used a nasal spray for a further 10 days, while half used a placebo spray.
▪ In this circumstance, nasopharyngeal electrodes inserted through the nasal cavity may show the epileptic activity more clearly.
▪ Notice that the name Makah has a nasal consonant-thus appearing to contradict the claim that these languages have no nasals.
▪ Similarly, many scientists argue that dinosaurs developed extensive nasal passages with membranes to cool their skin surfaces.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A new phoneme, the velar nasal, was born.
▪ Grimacing, I noticed my voice was attaining characteristics of the hideous local accent-the horrifying, flat, Rochester nasal.
▪ Notice that the name Makah has a nasal consonant-thus appearing to contradict the claim that these languages have no nasals.
▪ Of the syllabic nasals, the most frequently found and the most important is.
▪ Syllabic velar nasal is also possible in this context.
▪ Table 4.2 also shows that back realizations are favoured by following fricatives, non-velar voiced stops and non-velar nasals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nasal

Nasal \Na"sal\, n.

  1. An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.

  2. (Med.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. [Archaic]

  3. (Anc. Armor) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.

  4. (Anat.) One of the nasal bones.

  5. (Zo["o]l.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

Nasal

Nasal \Na"sal\ (n[=a]"zal), a. [F., from L. nasus the nose. See Nose.]

  1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nose.

  2. (Phon.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.

    Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals.

    Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter distance is taken as the standard, equal to 100.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nasal

1650s, "of the nose," from French nasal, from Latin nasus "nose, the nose, sense of smell," from PIE *nas- (see nose (n.)). Of speech sounds, attested from 1660s. As a noun, "nasal letter or sound," from 1660s. Related: Nasality; nasalization.

Wiktionary
nasal

a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to the nose. n. 1 An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such as ''m'' and ''n''. 2 (context medicine archaic English) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. 3 (context phonetics English) A nasal vowel or consonant. 4 (context now historical English) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard. 5 (context anatomy English) One of the nasal bones. 6 (context zoology English) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

WordNet
nasal
  1. adj. of or in or relating to the nose; "nasal passages" [syn: rhinal]

  2. sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" [syn: adenoidal, pinched]

nasal
  1. n. a continuant consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed [syn: nasal consonant]

  2. an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose [syn: nasal bone, os nasale]

Wikipedia
Nasal

Nasal (noun) is the medieval term for the nose guard of a helmet. Cf. Nasal helm.

Nasal (adjective) refers to the nose, part of human or animal anatomy. It may be also be shorthand for the following uses in combination:

  • With reference to the human nose:
    • Nasal administration, a method of pharmaceutical drug delivery
    • Nasal emission, the abnormal passing of oral air through a palatal cleft, or from some other type of velopharyngeal inadequacy
    • Nasal hair, the hair in the nose
  • With reference to linguistics:
  • With reference to the nose of humans or other animals:
    • Nasal bone, two small oblong bones placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face, and form, by their junction, "the bridge" of the nose
    • Nasal cavity, a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face
    • Nasal concha, a long, narrow and curled bone shelf which protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose
    • Nasal scale of reptiles

Usage examples of "nasal".

The anatomy of the nasal passages, and the various chambers and tubes that communicate therewith, is such that they cannot be reached with fluid administered with any kind of syringe or inhaling tube, or with any instrument, except one constructed to apply it upon the principle above stated.

The Catarrh Remedy may be administered by means of the Nasal Douche, if the case is complicated by Nasal catarrh.

One treatment that was administered for nasal catarrh, from which I continued to be affected, caused erosion of the mucous membrane, and destruction of the bony septum which separates the two nostrils.

Selecting a long-stemmed goblet of greenish wine and a stylish little Perkup nasal inhaler, Alacrity sighed.

And immediately after her prayer breaks forth, soars upward in a shrill nasal falsetto, like a morning alarum when the hour for waking has come, the mechanical noise of a spring let go and running down.

Seregil asked in a haughty, slightly nasal voice, giving Alec an elaborate bow.

Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.

The instrument was, however, too large to be an aural or nasal speculum but too small to be anything else.

Reader, if you suffer from chronic nasal catarrh, do not expect to be very speedily cured, especially if your case is one of long standing.

She could smell the spicy Diton cooking and hear the nasal voice of an evening teacher above the conversations.

Parliamentary Olympus, ennobled brewers, nasal fanatics, all the machinery to hand.

And Folkish was what they were speaking, though it was a strangely slurred Folkish, very nasal, not at all familiar.

However, Guthrie Featherstone was a tall man, with a good calf in a silk stocking, and he took with him Marigold, his lady wife, who was young enough, and I suppose pretty enough, for Henry our junior clerk to eye wistfully, although she had the sort of voice that puts me instantly in mind of headscarves and gymkhanas, that high pitched nasal whining which a girl learns from too much contact with the saddle when young, and too little with the Timsons of this world in later life.

He took care to breathe solely through his nose, letting his vast nasal cavities humidify and warm the crisp air before it was drawn into his lungs.

All three men saw it at once and for the moment could only stare at the ivory-hued jawless irregular sphere with its great black orbits and triangular nasal opening.