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Anterior nasal spine

Anterior nasal spine

a pointed projection at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture; the tip, as seen on a lateral cephalometric radiograph, is used as a cephalometric landmark.

Synonym: spina nasalis anterior.


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