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Definition of Maxillary sinus
1. Noun. One of a pair of sinuses forming a cavity in the maxilla.
Definition of Maxillary sinus
1. Noun. (anatomy) A paranasal sinus found in the body of the maxilla. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Maxillary sinus
1. A air filled cavity within the maxilla (bone that forms the face and upper jaw). The maxillary sinus is located just below the bony prominence of the cheek (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maxillary Sinus
Literary usage of Maxillary sinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1902)
"Where the probe reveals unusual extension of the sinus outward and downward
operation by way of the maxillary sinus appears to be indicated. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"A New Method of Entering the maxillary sinus through the Nose.—VAIL (Laryngoscope,
January, 1908) penetrates the wall of the antrum with a special ..."
3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"Pressure on the Orbit from the maxillary sinus. The diseases of the maxillary
are upon the whole analogous to those of the frontal sinus. ..."
4. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Catarrh of the maxillary sinus. ... The disease rarely occurs as a primary
affection, as after violent traumatic insults to the maxillary sinus. ..."
5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"2 shows a perpendicular transverse bilateral section, made by passing through
the anterior portion of the orbit, maxillary sinus, and the first molar of ..."
6. The Principles and practice of dental surgery by Chapin Aaron Harris (1863)
"EXOSTOSIS OF THE OSSEOUS PARIETES OF THE maxillary sinus. THE osseous walls of
the maxillary sinus sometimes become the seat of bony tumors—exostoses. ..."
7. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1889)
"By ADOLF BRONNER, MD, Surgeon to the Eye and Ear Hospital, Bradford. The maxillary
sinus is a cavity of the shape of a triangular pyramid, ..."
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