empty nose syndrome

English

Etymology

Coined by Dr. Eugene Kern.

Noun

empty nose syndrome (uncountable)

  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.

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