| NOUN | body | venous sinus, sinus | a wide channel containing blood |
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| Meaning | A wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel. | |
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| Synonym | sinus | |
| Narrower | cavernous sinus, sinus cavernosus | Either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity |
| coronary sinus, sinus coronarius | A short sinus receiving most of the veins of the heart | |
| sigmoid sinus, sinus sigmoideus | An S-shaped dural sinus on the temporal and occipital bones | |
| straight sinus, tentorial sinus, sinus rectus | An unpaired sinus of the dura mater | |
| transverse sinus, sinus transversus | A paired dural sinus | |
| Broader | duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel | A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance |
| Spanish | seno venoso | |
| Catalan | si d'una vena | |
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