Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Turbinal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turbinal \Tur"bi*nal\, n. (Anat.)
A turbinal bone or cartilage.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turbinal \Tur"bi*nal\, a. [L. turbo, turben, -inis, a top,
whirl.] (Anat.)
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.
Note: 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 maxill[ae], 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
turbinal
n : any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in
man and other vertebrates [syn: {turbinate bone}, {turbinate}]
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