Dinosauria turbinate bone http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Gray153.png 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. uberon ossified nasal turbinal turbinate bone concha NCIT:C49594 turbinal bone The small curved bones that extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal passage. GAID:224 ossified nasal turbinate Turbinals are only ossified in birds and derived synapsids. UBERON:0001762 FMA considers nasal concha and nasal concha of ethmoid bone to be synonymous. We disambiguate these here EHDAA2:0004101 UMLS:C1266928 OpenCyc:Mx4rv07bVJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA ossified turbinate MESH:D014420 EMAPA:25093 MA:0000286 endochondral bone zone of bone organ structure with developmental contribution from neural crest neurocranium bone nasal turbinal