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Turbinate: A bone shaped like a top. The turbinate is a bone in the nose; it is an extension of the ethmoid bone, is situated along the side wall of the nose, and is covered by mucous membrane.
The word turbinate is related to a turbine and tornado. They are all derived from the Latin turbo meaning a whorl, eddy, or spiral shell. The turbinate in the nose was so named because it is a curled shelf of bone protruding from the lateral (side) wall of the nasal cavity.
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( tûr ' bÉ™-nÄt, -nÄt ' ) also tur·bi·nat·ed ( -nÄ ' tÄd ) adj. Shaped like a top. Spinning like a top. Zoology ...
The inferior turbinate will often have some spare room under itself, in the place called the inferior meatus. By fracturing the base of the turbinate it can be displaced ...
A description of Sinus Turbinate Surgery for the lay person.
adjective 1. Also, tur·bi·nat·ed. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled. 2. Anatomy . of or pertaining to certain scroll-like ...
Shaped or spinning like a top. · In the shape of a coil. · (zoology) Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex. Used especially of ...