ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages
- in the shape of a coil
NOUN
- any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
How To Use turbinate In A Sentence
- Often patients begin treatment with turbinate reduction.
- Examination revealed a polypoid mass within the left nasal cavity replacing the left middle turbinate.
- Specimens from the lateral sides of the middle turbinate mucosa were examined as a control.
- The nose contains shelf-like structures called turbinates, which help trap particles entering the nasal passages.
- Partial middle turbinate reduction is not done as a routine.
- The warm sunlight gave him a lazy, comfortable, lie-around-all-morning-and-scratch-your-armpits feeling, but inside his nose the cilia were waving, the turbinates were knocking, and the spheno-ethmoidal recess was on red alert: by Woden's honey pots, what a scent! La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
- At least 1 percent of persons in the population have symptomatic nasal polyps and up to 42 percent may have asymptomatic polyps on careful examination of the middle meatus, middle turbinate and ethmoids.
- The surgical section covers incision and approaches for septal surgery, together with surgery of the pyramid, globule, turbinates and nasal cavity.
- 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.
- Some student in the rhinology department had taken out the turbinates in his nose—and the whole rhinology department, judging from the notes, had taken turns finding and irrigating his sphenoid sinuses—the most difficult sinuses in the human head to reach. Archive 2005-12-01