Mucus Membrane Lining The Roof Of The Nose

It is one of the most commonly infected tissues in adults and children.

Mucus membrane lining the roof of the nose.

It is very thin in the meatuses on the floor of the nasal cavities and in the various sinuses. Liquid leaks out of the blood vessels making the mucous membranes lining the nose and throat to swell and stimulating nearby gland to produce mucus the olfactory organ is located in the mucous membrane lining the uppermost part of the roof of the nasal cavity. The mucous membrane is thickest and most vascular over the nasal conchae. It is also thick over the nasal septum where increased numbers of goblet cells produce a greater amount of nasal mucus.

The mucous membranes are also lined with cilia tiny hair like structures that help to trap the debris that you breathe in the cilia then move the debris either towards the front of your nose or towards the back of the throat. Mucous membrane the lining of most of the body cavities and hollow internal organs such as the mouth the nose the eyelids the intestine and the vagina. Mucous membrane membrane lining body cavities and canals that lead to the outside chiefly the respiratory digestive and urogenital tracts. Nasal mucus is created within membranes of your nose and sinus passages.

Most of the time. Nasal mucous membranes are lined with small blood vessels that help to warm and humidify the air you breathe. Collins dictionary of medicine robert m.