What is the meaning of turbinate?

noun

Any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates.
- synonyms: turbinate bone, turbinal

adjective

Of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages.
In the shape of a coil.
- synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled

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