A 65-year—old woman and her 9-) grand daughter were in a train crash. the granddaughter sustained only minor injuries, but at the moment of impact her grandmother struck her nose sharply on the metal bat of the seat in front of her.she was taken to the hospital with clear fluid running from her nose. and she was complaining of inability to smell any thing. X rays showed that the grandmother had fractured a cranial bone. Surgery to repair the damage was delicate and difficult, and the woman’s sense of smell never returned.
1. Which cranial bone “as fractured? (1 point)
2. Explain why the fracture of this particular bone might lead lo the sense of smell being lost. ( 1 point)
3. Explain why was then: clear fluid running from her nose after the injury. What was this fluid (no, no! mucus)? (1 point)

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