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SPHENOID SINUS

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Definitions of SPHENOID SINUS

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1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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One of the paired paranasal sinuses, located in the body of the sphenoid bone and communicating with the highest meatus of the nasal cavity on the same side.

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

an air-space in the sphenoid bone.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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