sphenoethmoidal recess

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| Name = Sphenoethmoidal recess

| Latin = recessus sphenoethmoidalis

| Image = Recessussphenoethmoidalis.PNG

| Caption = Lateral wall of nasal cavity
(sphenoethmoidal recess labeled at top)

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The sphenoethmoidal recess is a small triangular space superior to the superior nasal meatus of the nasal cavity into which the sphenoidal sinus{{Cite book |last=Standring |first=Susan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1201341621 |title=Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice |year=2020 |isbn=978-0-7020-7707-4 |edition=42nd |location=New York |pages=692 |oclc=1201341621}}{{Cite book |last=Sinnatamby |first=Chummy S. |title=Last's Anatomy |publisher= Elsevier Australia|year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7295-3752-0 |edition=12th |pages=373}}{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Keith L. |title=Essential Clinical Anatomy |last2=Dalley |first2=Arthur F. |last3=Agur |first3=Anne M. R. |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |year=2017 |isbn=978-1496347213 |pages=966}} opens.{{Citation |last1=Cappello |first1=Zachary J. |title=Anatomy, Head and Neck, Nose Paranasal Sinuses |date=2023 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499826/ |work=StatPearls |access-date=2023-07-04 |place=Treasure Island (FL) |publisher=StatPearls Publishing |pmid=29763001 |last2=Minutello |first2=Katrina |last3=Dublin |first3=Arthur B.}} The sphenoethmoidal recess is situated superoposterior to the superior nasal concha, between the superior nasal concha and the anterior aspect of the body of the sphenoid bone.