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II. A COMPARISON OF NASAL CLEARANCE IN MAN, MONKEY AND OTHER MAMMALS

ALFRED M. LUCAS, PH.D.; L. C. DOUGLAS, A.B.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1934;20(4):518-541.

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The cilia within the nose and paranasal sinuses are the chief agent in maintaining the normal clearance of the nose. Their integration, reducing to a minimum uneven stresses on the mucous sheet, is maintained in spite of the structural complexity of the mammalian nose. Such a delicate balance of directional movements and forces must operate in conformity with certain principles which, once revealed, will serve as a standard of measurement by which the rationale of some clinical procedures may be evaluated.

That such principles exist became evident as a result of studies¹ on the ciliary movement in the nasal cavity and maxillary sinus of Macacus rhesus. Yates² previously published an account of mucous drainage in the posterior part of the human nose. These observations have been admirably supplemented by those of Hilding,³ who extended this survey on man to include the inferior two thirds of the nasal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ST. LOUIS

From the Department of Anatomy, Washington University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
This investigation was aided by the Chemical Foundation, the National Research Council and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to Washington University for research in science.

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