Crossword clues for sinuses
sinuses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinus \Si"nus\, n.; pl. L. Sinus, E. Sinuses. [L., a bent surface, a curve, the folds or bosom of a garment, etc., a bay. Cf. Sine, n.]
An opening; a hollow; a bending.
A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
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(Anat. & Zo["o]l.) A cavity; a depression. Specifically:
A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.
A dilated vessel or canal.
(Med.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
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(Bot.) A depression between adjoining lobes. Note: A sinus may be rounded, as in the leaf of the white oak, or acute, as in that of the red maple. Pallial sinus. (Zo["o]l.) See under Pallial. Sinus venosus. [L., venous dilatation.] (Anat.)
The main part of the cavity of the right auricle of the heart in the higher vertebrates.
In the lower vertebrates, a distinct chamber of the heart formed by the union of the large systematic veins and opening into the auricle.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of sinus English)
Usage examples of "sinuses".
With a head cold and sinus infection, the rapid climb during takeoff forced mucus tightly into the Eustachian tubes of Mundy's inner ear, reducing the air pressure inside the sinuses and inner ear and jamming the sinuses and inner ear closed.
Although my mother subjected me to daily torture by Vick's Inhaler and steaming bowls of Vick's ointment dissolved in water, which, blanket over head, I was obliged to try and inhale, my sinuses refused to respond to treatment.
Her legs and feet were a pounding, itching ache, her sinuses felt like cotton bales and her stomach insisted it was hungry, but the thought of food was horrible.
She staggered back into the wall, her face in agony, sinuses already stopped with blood.
The reek in the room pried at her sinuses like the bouquet off a shot of cheap whiskey.
Once safely on the tanker's wingtip, flying very loose relaxed formation, Mundy dropped his oxygen mask, found a handkerchief in his left flight suit leg pocket, blew his nose, then massaged his sinuses to try to clear his head.
My right arm jerked and the stick jabbed my elbow and the sting from my ear and my elbow pulled the plug on my nose and eyes so I looked wildly through the swimming murk of my watering sinuses as the white beam from a flashlight in the dark blinded my naked eyes and the stick whapped out of the blur again.
Eyes burning, sinuses on fire, lungs hurting, she rode the Honda home.
Although he was weary-and in a perpetual haze from the drugs that kept his sinuses clear-in some ways Saul had never felt better.
Something in the tunnel-perhaps a new Halleyform his immune system had not yet come to terms with-was causing a burning, itching reaction in his sinuses and throat.