Buccal vs Nasal - What's the difference?
buccal | nasal |
Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth.
(dentistry, of a premolar or molar) On the side facing the cheek.
(medicine, of a drug) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the nose.
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(phonetics) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such as m'' and ''n .
(medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
(phonetics) A nasal vowel or consonant.
Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
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(anatomy) One of the nasal bones.
(zoology) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
As an adjective buccal
is of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth.As a noun nasal is
nasal consonant.buccal
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*Derived terms
* buccal cavity * buccal pumping * transbuccal ----nasal
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(en noun)- The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
- Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.