Your question is missing a word. The ethmoid is a bone or sinus in the face. Bilateral means both sides. Mild has the same meaning in medical terms as it has in lay language.
The ethmoid refers to a bone or a sinus. The mucoperiosteum is the lining of that bone and sinus. Minimal ethmoid mucoperiosteal disease means there's a little bit of chronic sinusitis in that sinus.
Chronic sinusitis
The sinuses are paired air pockets located within the bones of the face. They are: the sphenoid sinuses; Located just behind the ethmoid sinuses, and behind the eyes.
It's the bone that is formed behind the nose inside your skull. It has the holes that you breathe through when you breath through your nose.
Opacification of the ethmoid air cells means that there is thickened, cloudy mucus in the ethmoidal sinuses. The ethmoidal sinuses are located in the ethmoid bone of the skull. There are two each on the left and right side. This finding is consistent with sinusitis.
Bilateral epistaxis is bleeding from both nostrils. This may be due to an ethmoid hematoma, or due to exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH). You should talk to your veterinarian about diagnostic and treatment options - there isn't anything you can do about either of these without veterinary advice.
You have a history of runny nose. You purulent nasal discharge. You have throbbing headache around your eyes. You have tenderness on frontal or maxillary sinus area, unilateral or bilateral.
Bilateral symmetry means that left and right side looks the same.
what does mucoperiosteal thickening in the ethmoid air cells mean? According to www.utmb.edu it is an allergy that has cause permanent deformation in the air way."Acute Sinusitis (Mar.1997)Viral sinusitis is classically seen as slight mucoperiosteal thickening. ... In allergic rhinitis, bilateral mucoperiosteal thickening is seen, thus helping differentiating ...www.utmb.edu"Mucoperiosteal thickening can also be an early warning sign of cancer in the sinuses. The location should be watched and re-checked over time with imaging to see if it is growing larger.
Bilateral volume loss is shrinkage on both the right and left sides.
Ethmoidectomy is the medical term meaning surgical removal of part of the ethmoid bone or of tissues in the ethmoid sinus.
An ethmoid is a bone in the human skeleton, situated between the eyes and the roof of the nose.