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- New Latin · borrowed fromnāsālis
- English todaynasalis
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin nāsālis, ellipsis of mūsculus nāsālis (“nasal muscle”). Doublet of nasal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nasalis
Today it means: A small muscle on each side of the nose that constricts the nasal aperture by the action of a triangular transverse portion which draws the lateral part of the aperture upward and a quadrangular alar portion which draws it downward. Full definition →
New Latin nāsālis