TURBINATE BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turbinate bone mean? 

• TURBINATE BONE (noun)
  The noun TURBINATE BONE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TURBINATE BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURBINATE BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

turbinal; turbinate; turbinate bone

Hypernyms ("turbinate bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turbinate bone"):

nasal concha (one of several turbinate bones in the nasal cavity)

Holonyms ("turbinate bone" is a part of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)