title: Nasal physiology.
abstract: Because injudicious surgery may adversely alter nasal function, those who treat problems of the nose should be aware of nasal physiology. The nose has seven functions: airway, air conditioning, air cleaning, olfaction, phonation, reflex, and secondary sex organ. These are reviewed in detail and their significance to the planning and performance of an aesthetic rhinoplasty, septal surgery, and turbinate surgery appropriately noted. Form and function are related.
mesh_terms: D002923:Cilia / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009093:Mucus / Q000502:physiology; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000502:physiology; D009666:Nose / Q000502:physiology*; D010699:Phonation; D012123:Pulmonary Ventilation; D012119:Respiration; D012225:Rhinoplasty; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology