turbinal, a. and n.
(ˈtɜːbɪnəl)
[f. L. turbo, turbin-em (see turbo) + -al1.]
A. adj. Turbinated, top-shaped; in Anat. = turbinate a.: cf. B.
| 1584 R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiii. xix. (1886) 258 Experiments..in diverse sorts of glasses;..the columnarie, the pyramidate or piked, the turbinall. 1883 Science I. 233/1 The arrangement of the turbinal bones in the fissiped carnivores. 1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 910 No swelling as yet of turbinal bodies or septal mucous membrane. |
B. n. Anat. A turbinal or turbinate bone; the ethmo-, the maxillo-, or the spheno-turbinal.
| 1848 Owen Archetype & Homol. Vertebr. Skel. i. 13 ‘Turbinal’..is a substitute for the phrase ‘os turbinatum inferius’ and its synonym ‘os spongiosum inferius’. Ibid. ii. 114 The Turbinal or nose-capsule. 1854 ― Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc. I. Org. Nat. 179 An ossified part of the capsule of the organ of smell, ‘turbinal’. Ibid. 251 The superior turbinals extend..below into the presphenoidal sinus. 1871 Huxley Anat. Vertebr. Anim. v. 237 Forming the floor of the front part of the nasal chamber, on each side, is a large concavo-convex bone, which..protects the nasal gland, and is commonly termed a turbinal, though, if it be a membrane bone, it does not truly correspond with the turbinals of the higher Vertebrata. |