turbinate bone

noun

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

• Syn: ↑turbinate, ↑turbinal

• Hypernyms: ↑bone, ↑os

• Hyponyms: ↑nasal concha

• Part Holonyms: ↑nose, ↑olfactory organ

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noun

: a turbinal bone or process; especially : one of three such bones or processes which in man are borne on the lateral wall of the nasal fossa on each side and of which the middle and superior are processes of the ethmoid and the inferior and largest is a separate curved bony plate horizontally placed and separating the inferior and middle meatuses in the nose — called also nasal concha