turbinate bone
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001762
The small curved bones that extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal passage. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ MP:0002244 ]
Synonyms: turbinal bone, turbinate bone, ossified nasal turbinate, ossified turbinate, ossified nasal turbinal
Term info
- UMLS:C1266928 (ncithesaurus:Nasal_Turbinate)
- GAID:224
- EMAPA:25093
- NCIT:C49594
- EHDAA2:0004101
- MESH:D014420
- MA:0000286
- SCTID:361931007
- Wikipedia:Nasal_concha
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
Turbinals are only ossified in birds and derived synapsids., In humans, the turbinates divide the nasal airway into three groove-like air passages -and are responsible for forcing inhaled air to flow in a steady, regular pattern around the largest possible surface of cilia and climate controlling tissue.
FMA considers nasal concha and nasal concha of ethmoid bone to be synonymous. We disambiguate these here
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concha
uberon
UBERON:0001762
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_436486
Term relations
- nasal turbinal
- neurocranium bone
- endochondral bone
- zone of bone organ
- only in taxon some Amniota
- in taxon some (not Dinosauria)
- develops from some nasal concha cartilage
- transformation of some nasal concha cartilage