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• Turbinate

  adjective 1. Also, turbinated. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled. 2. Anatomy. of or relating to certain scroll-like, spongy bones of the nasal passages in humans and other vertebrates. 3. inversely conical. noun 4. a turbinate shell. 5. Also called nasal concha. Anatomy. a turbinate bone. adjective 1. (anatomy) of or […]

• Turbinate bone

  turbinate bone n. A small curved bone that extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal passage in humans and other animals.

• Turbine

  noun 1. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor. […]

• Turbine blade

  noun 1. any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow

• Turbinectomy

  turbinectomy tur·bi·nec·to·my (tûr’bə-něk’tə-mē) n. Surgical removal of a turbinate bone.

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