The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nasal \Na"sal\ (n[=a]"zal), a. [F., from L. nasus the nose. See Nose.]
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nose.
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(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.
Wiktionary
n. (nasal bone English)
Usage examples of "nasal bones".
His left hand stabbed the spear he'd appropriated through the thin nasal bones of a skull.
There were dozens of witnesses and they all said that I was just trying to push him away, not drive nasal bones into the drunken man's brain.
Her eyes trailed slowly down the long nasal bones and the ridged jaw, and she realized that much of the bone was showing.
His nose was shattered and the nasal bones were driven up into the substance of the brain.