One of several bony canals leading from the floor of the nasal cavity into the incisive fossa on the palatal surface of the maxilla; they convey the nasopalatine nerves and branches of the greater palatine arteries that anastomose with the septal branch of the sphenopalatine artery. [ http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/incisive+canal ]
Term information
One of several bony canals leading from the floor of the nasal cavity into the incisive fossa on the palatal surface of the maxilla; they convey the nasopalatine nerves and branches of the greater palatine arteries that anastomose with the septal branch of the sphenopalatine artery.
Term relations
- foramen of skull
- neural crest-derived structure
- conduit for some nasopalatine nerve
- part of some hard palate