turbinaladj.n.
/ˈtəːbɪnəl/ A. adj.
Turbinated, top-shaped; in Anatomy = turbinate adj.: cf. B.
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turbinal1584
turbinated1615
turbinate1661
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > spiral or scroll-like
turbinated1615
involute1661
turbinate1661
whorled1776
involuted1816
turbiniform1826
turbinaceous1842
inrolled1881
turbinal1883
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xix. 316 Experiments..in diuerse sorts of glasses;..the columnarie, the pyramidate or piked, the turbinall.
1883 Science 1 233/1 The arrangement of the turbinal bones in the fissiped carnivores.
1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 910 No swelling as yet of turbinal bodies or septal mucous membrane.
B. n. Anatomy.
A turbinal or turbinate bone; the ethmo-, the maxillo-, or the spheno-turbinal.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of nose
sieve-bone1594
ethmoid bone1657
labyrinth1678
vomer1704
ethmoid1732
turbinal1848
ethmoturbinal1853
mesethmoid1870
turbinate1873
mid-ethmoid1884
1848 R. Owen On Archetype & Homologies Vertebr. Skeleton i. 13 ‘Turbinal’..is a substitute for the phrase ‘os turbinatum inferius’ and its synonym ‘os spongiosum inferius.’
1848 R. Owen On Archetype & Homologies Vertebr. Skeleton ii. 114 The Turbinal or nose-capsule.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 179 An ossified part of the capsule of the organ of smell, ‘turbinal’.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 251 The superior turbinals extend..below into the presphenoidal sinus.
1871 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Vertebrated Animals v. 237 Forming the floor of the front part of the nasal chamber, on each side, is a large concavo-convex bone, which..protects the nasal gland, and is commonly termed a turbinal, though, if it be a membrane bone, it does not truly correspond with the turbinals of the higher Vertebrata.
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