Turbinal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex.
  • n. Anatomy A turbinate bone.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex.
  • n. A turbinate bone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. 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. A turbinal bone or cartilage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as turbinate.
  • n. In zoology and anatomy:
  • n. A turbinate bone; one of the spongy or scroll-like bones of the nasal passages specified as ethmoturbinal, maxilloturbinal, and sphenoturbinal (see the distinctive names). See turbinate, and the phrases there.
  • n. In the Ophidia, a bone of the skull different from . See the quotation, and cut under Pythonidæ.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
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