Crossword clues for turbinal
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.
Note: There are usually several of these plates in each nasal chamber. The upper ones, connected directly with the ethmoid bone, are called ethmoturbinals, and the lower, connected with the maxill[ae], maxillo-turbinals. Incurved portions of the wall of the nasal chamber are sometimes called pseudoturbinals, to distinguish them from the true turbinals which are free outgrowths into the chambers.
Turbinal \Tur"bi*nal\, n. (Anat.) A turbinal bone or cartilage.
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. n. (context anatomy English) A turbinate bone.
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.