venous sinus

1. A wide channel containing blood;
   Does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel (synset 105259480)
   is a type of: canal, channel, duct, epithelial duct - a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
   subtypes:

   • cavernous sinus, sinus cavernosus - either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity
   • coronary sinus, sinus coronarius - a short sinus receiving most of the veins of the heart; empties into the right atrium
   • sigmoid sinus, sinus sigmoideus - an S-shaped dural sinus on the temporal and occipital bones
   • sinus rectus, straight sinus, tentorial sinus - an unpaired sinus of the dura mater
   • sinus transversus, transverse sinus - a paired dural sinus; terminates in the sigmoid sinus
   same as: sinus

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