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Paranasal sinuses are a group of four air-filled spaces. Maxillary sinuses surround the nasal cavity, frontal sinuses are above the eyes, ethmoid sinuses are between the eyes and sphenoid sinuses are behind the eyes.

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In humans, the four pairs of paranasal sinuses and their locations are as follows:

  • Frontal sinuses, superior to the eyes, in the frontal bone, which forms the hard part of the forehead.
  • Maxillary sinuses (maxillary antra), are under the eyes, in the maxillary bones.
  • Ethmoid sinuses (ethmoid labyrinth), are between the nose and eyes within the ethmoid bone.
  • Sphenoid sinuses, in the sphenoid bone at the center of the skull base under the pituitary gland.
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They are the frontal sinuses, the ethmoidal sinuses, the sphenoidal sinuses, and the maxillary sinuses.

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