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Definition of "turbinal" []

  • Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex. (adjective)
  • Anatomy A turbinate bone. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "turbinal" in a sentence
  • "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 working order and the Prince was calling — weakly, indeed, but calling — to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world."
  • "_Subglottic hypertrophic stenosis_ consists in symmetrical turbinal-like swellings encroaching on the lumen from either side."
  • "The ethmoid ends in the ethmo-turbinal (e.t.); the nasal, the naso-turbinal"
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