In most cases, however, it makes its way still further out, and the next covering it gains is from the cribriform fascia.
It may be identified with the anterior colature orcribriform plate.
The plane of the cribriform plate is called the =ethmoidal plane=, and as was the case also with the occipital plane, the angle that it makes with the basicranial axis varies much in different mammals, and is of importance.
The most anterior of these nerves, the olfactory, leaves the skull by a number of small holes piercing the =cribriform plate= (fig.
The branches of the Olfactory Nerve may be ruptured as they pass through the cribriform plate in fractures implicating the anterior fossa of the skull, and there results complete and permanent loss of smell (anosmia).
Spontaneous evacuation may take place by the abscess bursting into the nose through the cribriform plate.
It is needless to say that great care must be taken while working close to the cribriform plate.
But if there be any damage done to the wall in the neighbourhood of the crista galli or cribriform plate, the dura mater is almost inevitably injured at the same time, and a rapid and fatal meningitis may be expected.
An assistant holds it closely parallel to the cribriform plate, where it acts as a protector.
The chief danger is from injury to the cribriform plate, as any damage in this area, occurring in the septic conditions which generally call for operation, is generally followed by fatal meningitis.
When it occurs it is apt to run into the cribriform plate, and be associated with the escape of cerebro-spinal fluid and other indications of fracture of the anterior fossa of the skull.
The olfactory nerve is a prolongation of the substance of the brain, and it abuts upon the cribriform bone, of which mention has been made.
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