turbinates

My favorite panel was "What's New in the World of Dinosaurs," wherein we got to talk about Sauropelta and Nyctosaurus and Kentrosaurus and thagomizers and Pterodaustro and how T-rexes lack nasal bones called turbinates (which 99% of living warm-blooded animals have).

Flowers' Progress, week 9 frankwu 2010

Timprov's turbinates are a shadow of their former selves, as is his uvula, and his tonsils are gone.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2009

The warm sunlight gave him a lazy, comfortable, lie-around-all-morning-and-scratch-your-armpits feeling, but inside his nose the cilia were waving, the turbinates were knocking, and the spheno-ethmoidal recess was on red alert: by Woden's honey pots, what a scent!

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

About 10 years ago, I had that "zap" treatment of my nasal turbinates to improve airflow through my nose.

I am so miserable. Angry Professor 2008

Ears with pearly TMs bilaterally; throat somewhat injected, but without exudates or lesions; nose clear, pink turbinates, no discharge; lungs clear; heart regular without murmurs or gallops.

Archive 2008-01-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

Ears with pearly TMs bilaterally; throat somewhat injected, but without exudates or lesions; nose clear, pink turbinates, no discharge; lungs clear; heart regular without murmurs or gallops.

The Hypochondriac 1 Dinosaur 2008

Some student in the rhinology department had taken out the turbinates in his nose—and the whole rhinology department, judging from the notes, had taken turns finding and irrigating his sphenoid sinuses—the most difficult sinuses in the human head to reach.

Sherlock Holmes on acid Jenny Davidson 2005

Some student in the rhinology department had taken out the turbinates in his nose—and the whole rhinology department, judging from the notes, had taken turns finding and irrigating his sphenoid sinuses—the most difficult sinuses in the human head to reach.

Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

Called ‘turbinates’, these bulges also impart warmth and moisture to incoming air so that it does not shock the sensitive lungs with cold or dryness.

The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

In cold and/or dry climates, adepts should always exhale through the nose in order to replenish the heat and moisture borrowed from the turbinates during inhalation with heat and moisture from the lungs.

The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989