TURBINATE BONE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

turbinal; turbinate; turbinate bone

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Nouns denoting body parts

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)