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nouna wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel
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nounan abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface
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nounany of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skulltype of:
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- ac an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
- cavity (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
- erectile filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
- cavernous filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
- sinusitis inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses
- cavum (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
- sinusoidally in a sinusoidal manner
- right coronary artery arises from the right aortic sinus; supplies the right side of the heart
- ophthalmic vein either of two veins that serve the eye; empties into the cavernous sinus
- maxillary sinus one of a pair of sinuses forming a cavity in the maxilla