Sentence examples for turbinate from inspiring English sources

As he walked past Völler en route to the dressing room, he casually turned his head and flobbed the mouthful of slimy gloop he had just harvested from his nasal turbinate straight into his rival's hair.

It may reach a length of 4 centimetres (1 1/2 inches), is usually dark gray, and has a solid spiral (turbinate) shell that readily withstands the buffeting of waves.

Each elevation, called a nasal concha or turbinate, hangs over an air passage.

I was instructed to report for my bed not later than three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, although I wasn't to lose my middle turbinate until eight the next morning.

In simple smelling, the handy trunk is waved in the air to collect air samples with odorant molecules and convey them to an extensive sensory system, contained in the elephant's upper nasal cavity in a complex of scrolled, spongy bones, called turbinates or turbinals.