SINUSOIDAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sinusoidal mean? 

• SINUSOIDAL (adjective)
  The adjective SINUSOIDAL has 1 sense:

1. having a succession of waves or curves

  Familiarity information: SINUSOIDAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINUSOIDAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a succession of waves or curves

Similar:

curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)

Derivation:

sinusoid (the curve of y=sin x)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by damage of the hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells of the hepatic venules that leads to venular occlusion and hepatocellular necrosis.

(Liver Veno-Occlusive Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The groups of the epithelioid cells are separated by thin-walled sinusoidal spaces.

(Alveolar soft part sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A usually aggressive large B-cell lymphoma characterized by the presence of monomorphic immunoblast-like neoplastic B-lymphocytes in a sinusoidal growth pattern.

(ALK-Positive Large B-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Example patterns include: absent variability with recurrent late decelerations, absent variability with recurrent variable decelerations, absent variability with bradycardia, and sinusoidal pattern.

(Abnormal Continuous Cardiotocography Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

Sinusoidal patterns are also excluded.

(Fetal Heart Rate Variability, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called sinusoidal obstruction syndrome.

(Hepatic veno-occlusive disease, NCI Dictionary)