turbinate bone

Fliess removed Emma’s turbinate bone, but left a wad of gauze behind which created an infection.

Inflammation continued to chew away at the bone, destroying not just the palate, but also the turbinate bones inside the nose.

Furthermore, ossified turbinate bones have been identified in the ankylosaurid dinosaur Saichania.

Like moose, caribou have specialized noses featuring nasal turbinate bones that dramatically increase the surface area within the nostrils.

A turbinate bone is any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in vertebrates.

Left and right turbinate bones have a shape that resembles a loosely rolled sheet of paper, which creates a large surface area for the nasal epithelium.

A saw cut made transversely through the facial region of the skull reveals delicate rolls of the turbinate bones in the nasal cavity.

This latter was a scroll-like structure, a turbinate bone serving with warm-blooded animals to condense and preserve exhaled moisture.

The air tracts are however, much simpler than in the typical ankylosaurid condition, and are not convoluted while lacking bony turbinate bones.

Turbinectomy is a procedure in which some or all of the turbinate bones attached to mucous membranes in the nasal passage are removed.

With a large quantity of turbinate bones, the aardvark has more space for the moist epithelium, which is the location of the olfactory bulb.

The nasal cavity contains turbinate bones that protect the mucous membrane that lines the cavity from warm inspired air.

Chronic atrophic rhinitis is a chronic inflammation of nose characterised by atrophy of nasal mucosa, including the glands, turbinate bones and the nerve elements supplying the nose.

Emma Eckstein (1865-1924) had a particularly disastrous experience when Freud referred the then 27-year-old patient to Fliess for surgery to remove the turbinate bone from her nose, ostensibly to cure her of premenstrual depression.