Turbinal: alternatives and connections

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in th…

Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the…

A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of th…

The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or…

The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the br…

The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and p…

One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasm…

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of C…

Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.

Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…

To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.

The maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone.

one of several turbinate bones in the nasal cavity