Nose piercing is the piercing of the skin or cartilage which forms any part of the nose, normally for the purpose of wearing jewelry, called a nose-jewel. Among the different varieties of nose piercin
Alaska woman wearing nose ring and labret piercing, Nunivak Island, 1929
Carthaginian female figure with gold nose piercing, 400–201 BCE
Nose ornament from the Moche culture, c. 100–300 CE
Drawing of an Egyptian woman wearing an engraved nose ring, as drawn by Edward Lane in his book An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
The nasal septum separates the left and right airways of the nasal cavity, dividing the two nostrils.
Nose piercing
…nose rings are one of the ornaments associated with married women in South Asia among both Hindus and Muslims in various diverse regional cultures. The nasal septum is the cartilaginous dividing wall between the nostrils. Generally, the cartilage itself is not pierced, but rather the small gap between the cartilage…
MRI image showing nasal septum from an axial slice through human head