The small curved bones that extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal passage. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 MP:0002244 ]
Synonyms: turbinal bone turbinate bone ossified nasal turbinate ossified nasal turbinal ossified turbinate
Term information
- UMLS:C1266928 (ncithesaurus:Nasal_Turbinate)
- SCTID:361931007
- MESH:D014420
- NCIT:C49594
- MA:0000286
- EHDAA2:0004101
- Wikipedia:Nasal_concha
- EMAPA:25093
- GAID:224
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
FMA considers nasal concha and nasal concha of ethmoid bone to be synonymous. We disambiguate these here
Turbinals are only ossified in birds and derived synapsids.
In humans, the turbinates divide the nasal airway into three groove-like air passages -and are responsible for forcing inhaled air to flow in a steady, regular pattern around the largest possible surface of cilia and climate controlling tissue.
Term relations
- nasal turbinal
- neurocranium bone
- endochondral bone
- zone of bone organ
- only in taxon some Amniota
- transformation of some nasal concha cartilage