venous sinus
English Thesaurus
1. a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | canal, channel, duct, epithelial duct, |
| definition | : | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | cavernous sinus, sinus cavernosus, |
| definition | : | either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | coronary sinus, sinus coronarius, |
| definition | : | a short sinus receiving most of the veins of the heart; empties into the right atrium (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | sigmoid sinus, sinus sigmoideus, |
| definition | : | an S-shaped dural sinus on the temporal and occipital bones (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | sinus rectus, straight sinus, tentorial sinus, |
| definition | : | an unpaired sinus of the dura mater (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | sinus transversus, transverse sinus, |
| definition | : | a paired dural sinus; terminates in the sigmoid sinus (noun.body) |
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