The Shrinking Anthropoid Nose, the Human Vomeronasal Organ, and the Language of Anatomical Reduction

Anatomical Record

Volumn 297, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2196-2204

  Smith, Timothy D ^a,b   Laitman, Jeffrey T ^c   Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^d  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Atavism; Nasal; Nose; Turbinals; Vestige; VNO

Indexed keywords

SIMIIFORMES;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NOSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; NOSE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84908308532     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23035     Document Type: Article

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