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Definition of Sinus cavernosus
1. Noun. Either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity.
Medical Definition of Sinus cavernosus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinus Cavernosus
Literary usage of Sinus cavernosus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of the Brain: A Manual for Students and Practitioners of by Jacob F. Burkholder (1912)
"Running almost completely around the hypophysis is the sinus circular is; on each
side this sinus communicates freely with the sinus cavernosus. ..."
2. A Hand-book of Post-mortem Examinations and of Morbid Anatomy by Francis Delafield (1872)
"splenic artery and vena azygos ; the internal carotid and sinus cavernosus.
Even in the cases of perforation by aortic aneurisms, life is usually prolonged ..."
3. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1887)
"Through the foramen ovale and the foramen anterius lacerum the sinus cavernosus
is connected with the pterygoid plexus. "It receives its supply from the ..."
4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1874)
"All the other sinusas have such emissaries, why should not the ophthalmic have
the same relation to the sinus cavernosus? The emissaries, as a rule, ..."
5. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"sinus cavernosus.—A short broad venous sinus, one on each side of the hypophysis,
on the body of the ... This arises from the sinus cavernosus and passes ..."
6. Local and Regional Anesthesia: With Chapters on Spinal, Epidural by Carroll Woolsey Allen (1920)
"... which forms the dividing wall of the same from the sinus cavernosus. This medial
wall is a thin, translucent, dural membrane. ..."
7. A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Dean De Witt Lewis, Daniel Graisberry Revell (1904)
"(g) Superior petrosal sinus (sinus petrosus superior), (h) Cavernous sinus (sinus
cavernosus). Leave this unopened at present; it will be thoroughly studied ..."
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