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ETHMOID SINUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sinus of the meatuses of the nasal cavity (behind the bridge of the nose)
Synonyms:
ethmoid sinus; ethmoidal sinus; sinus ethmoidales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ethmoid sinus" is a kind of...):
sinus (any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull)
Context examples:
An adenocarcinoma that arises from the ethmoid sinus.
(Ethmoid Sinus Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenoid cystic carcinoma that affects the ethmoid sinus.
(Ethmoid Sinus Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Causes include skull trauma, middle ear infection, congenital heart disease, and frontal and ethmoid sinus infection.
(Cerebral Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)
There is no pathologic M0 for nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus cancer.
(Nasal Cavity and Ethmoid Sinus Cancer Pathologic Distant Metastasis TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)
A finding about one or more characteristics of nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v6 classification system.
(Nasal Cavity and Ethmoid Sinus Cancer TNM Finding v6, NCI Thesaurus)
Ethmoid sinuses are found in the spongy ethmoid bone in the upper part of the nose between the eyes.
(Ethmoid sinus, NCI Dictionary)
An extremely rare meningioma that arises as a primary ectopic tumor in the ethmoid sinus.
(Ethmoid Sinus Primary Ectopic Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)
A pathologic finding about one or more characteristics of nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v6 classification system.
(Nasal Cavity and Ethmoid Sinus Cancer Pathologic TNM Finding v6, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the ethmoid sinus.
(Benign Ethmoid Sinus Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A clinical finding about one or more characteristics of nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system as they pertain to distant metastases.
(Nasal Cavity and Ethmoid Sinus Cancer Clinical Distant Metastasis TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)
