empty nose syndrome
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Etymology
Coined by Dr. Eugene Kern.
Noun
empty nose syndrome (uncountable)
- 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.
Translations
condition where the nose has been crippled
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