Definition of Turbinated

1. Adjective. Turbinate in shape. ¹

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Definition of Turbinated

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Turbinated

1. 1. Whirling in the manner of a top. "A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole." (Bentley) 2. Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root. 3. Turbinal. 4. Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; said of certain shells. Origin: L. Turbinatus, turbo, turben, -inis, a whirl, top. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turbinated

turbidness
turbidnesses
turbidometric
turbidometry
turbillion
turbillions
turbimetric
turbinaceous
turbinado
turbinal
turbinal varix
turbinals
turbinate
turbinate bone
turbinate bones
turbinated (current term)
turbinated body
turbinated bones
turbinated crest
turbinates
turbination
turbinations
turbine
turbinectomy
turbined
turbinelike
turbinella
turbinellas
turbines
turbinite

Literary usage of Turbinated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The anterior border is thin, irregular, and presents, opposite the inferior turbinated crest, a pointed, projecting lamina, the maxillary process, ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1890)
"BY HARRISON ALLEN, MD [Read February 12, 189(1.] • THE anterior end of the middle turbinated bone, either by displacement of the bone ..."

3. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by Francke Huntington Bosworth (1896)
"The lower turbinated bone is a very thin lamella of osseous tissue, curled upon itself, ... The middle turbinated bone belongs really to the ethmoid, ..."

4. Manual of Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat by John Johnson Kyle (1911)
"Sometimes above and behind the superior turbinated body, remnants of a fourth ... The superior turbinated bone is situated far back in the nasal attic ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"From the ninth to the twelfth year the turbinated processes are partially united to the sphenoid, their junction being complete by the twentieth year. ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1870)
"The superior surface, the smallest of the three, articulates with the horizontal part of the sphenoidal turbinated bone; it presents a groove which ..."

7. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1808)
"... and turbinated, each containing one star, already examined, (Page 23,) with those of this class, which are composed of several stars ; and which, ..."

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