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Site, Function, and Assessment

Philip Cole, MD, FRCSC

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118(8):790-793.

Abstract
• Major respiratory resistors situated at the nasal and oral portals are described, and the part they play in disrupting laminar flow of inspiratory air and facilitating the mucosal contact and mixing essential for effective cleansing, warming, and humidification is discussed. The resistors also determine the distribution of oronasal airflow. The contribution of structural and mucovascular elements to nasal airflow resistance is examined and the place of history, rhinoscopy, and rhinomanometry in clinical assessment of nasal patency and its variation in health and with age, race, and disease, is discussed.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118:790-793)

Author Affiliations
From the The Gage Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication November 18, 1991.

Reprint requests to The Gage Research Institute, 223 College St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R4 (Dr Cole).

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