turbinate bone

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Noun

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turbinate bone - any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates turbinal, turbinate nasal concha - one of several turbinate bones in the nasal cavity bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates nose, olfactory organ - the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose"