nasal bone

One of two small oblong bones, varying in size and form in different individuals; they are placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face, and form, by their junction, 'the bridge' of the nose[WP]. Paired dermal bones, likened to a bone tube, positioned lateral to the supraethmoid. Nasal bones are transversed by the anterior most part of the supraorbital canals and bear one neuromast foramen in zebrafish[ZFA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the nasal bone is

One of two small oblong bones, varying in size and form in different individuals; they are placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face, and form, by their junction, 'the bridge' of the nose[WP]. Paired dermal bones, likened to a bone tube, positioned lateral to the supraethmoid. Nasal bones are transversed by the anterior most part of the supraorbital canals and bear one neuromast foramen in zebrafish[ZFA]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the nasal bone is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the nasal bone connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of axial skeletal system, craniocervical region and facial skeleton, and 4 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the nasal bone. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as nasal bones, nasals and os nasale. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001681, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: axial skeletal system, craniocervical region, facial skeleton, head, material anatomical entity and nose, and 1 more.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, bone element, flat bone, skeletal element and subdivision of skeletal system.
• connects: frontonasal suture, internasal suture and nasomaxillary suture.
• contributes to morphology of: facial skeleton.
• contains: foramen of nasal bone.
• inserts into: nasalis muscle.

Questions

Where is the nasal bone?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the nasal bone connect to?

Part of: axial skeletal system, craniocervical region, facial skeleton, head, material anatomical entity and nose, and 1 more.

Is the nasal bone the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.