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turbinal

NOUN
  1. any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates

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  • The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand -- for 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 calling -- weakly, indeed, but calling -- to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world. The War in the Air
  • The ethmoid ends in the ethmo-turbinal (e.t.); the nasal, the naso-turbinal Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • Pus in the olfactory sulcus, on the upper surface of the middle turbinal posteriorly, and on the vault of the naso-pharynx, is suggestive of sphenoidal suppuration. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Amongst the former may be noted as the more common, erectile swelling and hypertrophy of the mucous membrane covering the inferior turbinated bones, and nasal polypi growing from the middle turbinal and middle meatal region. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • At least in mammals, turbinals come in at least two functional varieties.
  • The auditory bullae and the turbinals also tend to be large and complex.
  • 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 calling — weakly, indeed, but calling — to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world. The War in the Air
  • Occasionally bleeding occurs from one of the anterior ethmoidal veins, and under these circumstances the blood flows downwards between the middle turbinal and the septum. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • When present in asthmatic subjects, nasal polypi, erectile swelling of the inferior turbinated bodies, spines of the septum in contact with the inferior turbinal, or areas on the mucous membrane which, when probed, produce coughing, call for treatment with the object of modifying the asthma. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • The skulls of aardvarks are elongate and conical, and aardvarks have a more elaborate set of turbinal bones than any other mammal.
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