Definitions for sinuses

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sinuses si·nus

Spelling: [sahy-nuh s]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ nəs/

Sinuses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in sinuses (einsssu).

Definitions for sinuses

noun

1. a curve; bend.
2. a curving part or recess.
3. Anatomy. any of various cavities, recesses, or passages, as a hollow in a bone, or a reservoir or channel for venous blood. one of the hollow cavities in the skull connecting with the nasal cavities. an expanded area in a canal or tube.
4. Pathology. a narrow passage leading to an abscess or the like.
5. Botany. a small, rounded depression between two projecting lobes, as of a leaf.
6. Sinus, Sinus Iridum.

Origin of sinuses

1590-1600; Latin sinus (stem sinu-) bent or curved surface, curve, fold

Examples for sinuses

A fair number explicitly ask for an antibiotic, to cover the possibility that it is “bronchitis” or a “sinus infection.”

First of all, migraines often are misdiagnosed as sinus headaches.

Benign secondary headaches include headaches associated with the cold, flu, or sinus infections.

He has no bag like the Hebrew slinger, no sinus like the Roman.

Again, in others the part in question is received into a sinus of the nose.

A process of the face, which enters the notch or sinus of the eye.

When there is a notch or sinus at the anterior extremity, it is said to be emarginated.

One of the entries reads: “I spoke with a doctor for a long time about my sinus infections.”

He inserted the glowing jewel in the folds of the sinus of her dress.

The symbol sv for sinus versus occurs in the Clavis of 1631.