CAVERNOUS SINUS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity

Synonyms:

cavernous sinus; sinus cavernosus

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cavernous sinus" is a kind of...):

sinus; venous sinus (a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel)

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