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Turbinal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Turbinal has 1 sense
- turbinal(n = noun.body) turbinate, turbinate bone - any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates; Array has particulars: nasal concha
is a kind of bone, os
is a part of nose, olfactory organ
CIDE DICTIONARY
Turbinal, a. [L. turbo, turben, -inis, a top, whirl.].
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. [1913 Webster]
" 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 maxillæ, 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."
[1913 Webster]
Turbinal, n.
A turbinal bone or cartilage. [1913 Webster]
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