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Any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
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turbinal
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex. 2 (context anatomy English) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turbinal \Tur"bi*nal\, a. [L. turbo, turben, -inis, a top, whirl.] (Anat.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates [syn: turbinate bone , turbinate ]
Usage examples of turbinal.
The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at handfor the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was callingweakly, indeed, but callingto his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world.