Nasal hair Nasal hair Nasal hair or nose hair is the hair in the nose. Adult humans have hair in the interior nasal passage. Nasal hair functions include filtering foreign particles from entering the nasal cavity and collecting moisture. In support of the first function, the results of a 2010 study indicated that increased nasal hair density decreases development of asthma in those who have seasonal rhinitis, possibly due to an increased capacity of the faces to filter out pollen and other allergens. Nasal hair should not be confused with cilia of the nasal cavity, which are the microscopic cellular strands that,
Nasal infix would be expected. For example, the PIE root "to win" would yield a nasal-infixed present stem . These presents are called "nasal infix presents" or simply "nasal presents" and are typically active transitive verbs, often with durative aspect. Since the linguistic ancestor of PIE is not known, there can only be speculations about the origins of the nasal infix. It has been suggested that it arose from a suffix (also related to and ) which underwent metathesis. Besides the nasal infix, PIE employs a number of affixes to mark the present: , , , , , and others. All in