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turbinate bones

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turbinate bones
see Table 10.


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What the Nose Knows is a lighthearted book, packed with curious tidbits, including a list of the fragrant flowers Emily Dickinson liked to grow, and this plump factoid: Wilhelm Fliess, who prescribed cocaine to Sigmund Freud as a cure for migraines, also twice operated on Freud's nose—"to remove and cauterize part of the turbinate bones.
You may also have damaged the turbinate bones in your nose.
Larger nasal structures and turbinate bones serve to limit bodily heat and water loss in steamy, fast-metabolizing, warm-blooded animals.
 
 
 
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