English Explanatory Dictionary

empty nose syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The condition where the nose has been physiologically crippled, typically by excessive surgical removal of turbinates (mainly the inferior turbinates) in a turbinectomy or conchotomy.

Word forms

empty nose syndrome

Etymology

Coined by Dr. Eugene Kern.

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