SINUSOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sinusoid mean? 

• SINUSOID (noun)
  The noun SINUSOID has 2 senses:

1. tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ

2. the curve of y=sin x

  Familiarity information: SINUSOID used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINUSOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("sinusoid" is a kind of...):

passage; passageway (a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The curve of y=sin x

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

sine curve; sinusoid

Hypernyms ("sinusoid" is a kind of...):

undulation; wave (an undulating curve)

Derivation:

sinusoidal (having a succession of waves or curves)

 Context examples 

The area between hepatocytes and the epithelium lining the sinusoids of the liver.

(Perisinusoidal Space, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, the neoplastic cells resemble normal hepatocytes and form plates separated by sinusoids.

(Hepatocellular Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A mathematical formalism that transforms sequences of values into an equivalent representation that consists of the sum of many sinusoids having different frequencies and amplitudes.

(Fourier Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes the hepatic lobules, hepatic sinusoids, perisinusoidal spaces, and portal triad.

(Hepatic Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of medium-size neoplastic lymphocytes infiltrating the hepatic sinusoids.

(Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The veins within the hepatic lobes that drain blood from the liver sinusoids into the hepatic vein.

(Central Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

These intensely phagocytic cells line the walls of the sinusoids of the liver and form a part of the reticuloendothelial system.

(Kupffer Cell, NCI Thesaurus)