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Orbital cellulitis
Inflammation of the eye socket.

Optic nerve
The nerve carrying impulses for the sense of sight.

Osteomyelitis
An infectious inflammatory disease of bone that is often of bacterial origin and is marked by local death and separation of tissue.

Ostium
A small opening that connects each sinus within the nose.


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