SINUS
\sˈa͡ɪnəs], \sˈaɪnəs], \s_ˈaɪ_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of SINUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
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A cavity; a depression.
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A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.
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A dilated vessel or canal.
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A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
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A depression between adjoining lobes.
By Oddity Software
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A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
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A cavity; a depression.
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A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.
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A dilated vessel or canal.
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A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
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A depression between adjoining lobes.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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A bending: a fold: an opening: a bay of the sea: a recess in the shore: (anat.) a cavity wider in the interior than at the entrance: a venous canal: (med.) a cavity containing pus.
By Daniel Lyons
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A cavity, depression, or dilation; a groove or indentation.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Any cavity, the interior of which is more expanded than the entrance. In this sense, anatomists have applied the term to cavities in certain bones of the head and face. It has been, also, applied to certain venous canals, into which a number of vessels empty themselves; such as the sinuses of the dura mater and of the spine; the sinus of the vena porta; uterine sinuses, &c.;-and to the bosom. In surgery, it means a long, narrow, hollow track, leading from some abscess, diseased bone, &c., (F.) Clapier. Sinuses of bones form part of the nasal cavities. They are the frontal, sphenoidal, maxillary, &c. The name has also been given, occasionally, to the ethmoid and mastoid cells.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A cavity having a relatively narrow opening or entrance.
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A large venous canal into which several smaller veins empty, especially such a venous channel formed by the dura of the brain.
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The bosom.
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The long narrow suppurating tract communicating with an abscess or diseased tissue.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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