STRAIGHT SINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does straight sinus mean? 

• STRAIGHT SINUS (noun)
  The noun STRAIGHT SINUS has 1 sense:

1. an unpaired sinus of the dura mater

  Familiarity information: STRAIGHT SINUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRAIGHT SINUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unpaired sinus of the dura mater

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

sinus rectus; straight sinus; tentorial sinus

Hypernyms ("straight sinus" is a kind of...):

sinus; venous sinus (a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel)

 Context examples 

A blood vessel formed by the union of the two internal cerebral veins that drains the cerebrum and joins with the inferior sagittal sinus to form the straight sinus.

(Great Cerebral Vein of Galen, NCI Thesaurus)