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Turbinated, Turbinate adj.

Whirling in the manner of a top. "A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole."

(Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.

(Anat.) Turbinal.

(Zool.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; said of certain shells.

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Etymology of 'Turbinated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... The bones of the Cranium are the occipital, two parietal, two temporal, frontal, sphenoid, and ethmoid. Those composing the face are, the two nasal, two superior maxillary, two lachrymal, two malar two palate, two inferior turbinated, vomer, and inferior maxillary. The cranial bones are composed of two dense plates, between which there is, in most places a cancellated or cellular tissue. The external plate is fibrous, the ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce