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CAVERNOUS SINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cavernous sinus mean? 

CAVERNOUS SINUS (noun)
  The noun CAVERNOUS SINUS has 1 sense:

1. either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavityplay

  Familiarity information: CAVERNOUS SINUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAVERNOUS SINUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cavernous sinus; sinus cavernosus

Hypernyms ("cavernous sinus" is a kind of...):

sinus; venous sinus (a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel)


 Context examples 


A meningioma that affects the cavernous sinus.

(Cavernous Sinus Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)



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