turbinate


turbinate (http://definr.com/turbinate)

     adj 1: of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the
            nasal passages
     2: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral,
         spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled]
     n : any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in
         man and other vertebrates [syn: turbinate bone, turbinal]