Turbinate Definition
turbinate
- adjective
- of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages
- in the shape of a coil
- noun
- any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
Words that rhyme with turbinate
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