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

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  • Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in...
  • The ethmoid ends in the ethmo-turbinal (e.t.); the nasal, the naso-turbinal
  • The vertical height of the whole maxillo-turbinal is at least 8 cm., the upper portion being the higher; the antero-posterior diameter is about 9 cm.
  • Occasionally bleeding occurs from one of the anterior ethmoidal veins, and under these circumstances the blood flows downwards between the middle turbinal and the septum.
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