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Definition of Cavernous sinus
1. Noun. Either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity.
Medical Definition of Cavernous sinus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavernous Sinus
Literary usage of Cavernous sinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"It commences in front at the termination of the cavernous sinus, and behind joins
the lateral sinus after it has passed through the jugular foramen, ..."
2. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Orbital phlegmons may lead to thrombosis of the cavernous sinus; although the
converse process may also happen—ie, the thrombosis starting from a thrombosed ..."
3. Diseases of the eye: A Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"Thrombosis of the cavernous sinus.—During phlegmonous inflammation of the orbit
there may be thrombosis of the orbital veins, and extension from them to the ..."
4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"There are several nerves, besides the third, placed close together at the cavernous
sinus, and entering the orbit through the sphenoidal fissure. ..."
5. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"Caverneux, cavernous sinus—B. Cavernosi uteri, Sinus uterini—s. ... emptying itself
into the corresponding cavernous sinus by each of its extremities. ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"The ophthalmic is a large vein, which connects the frontal vein at the inner
angle of the orbit with the cavernous sinus; it pursues the same course as (he ..."
7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"It runs lateralward and backward, from the posterior end of the cavernous sinus,
over the trigeminal nerve, and lies in the attached margin of the tentorium ..."
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