cavernous sinus

1. 1.

   either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity

   Synonymssinus cavernosus

   Broadervenous sinus

Questions about cavernous sinus

What does cavernous sinus mean?

cavernous sinus means "either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity".

What is another word for cavernous sinus?

Close synonyms include sinus cavernosus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cavernous sinus a common word?

cavernous sinus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.