straight sinus

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   an unpaired sinus of the dura mater

   Synonymstentorial sinussinus rectus

   Broadervenous sinus

Questions about straight sinus

What does straight sinus mean?

straight sinus means "an unpaired sinus of the dura mater".

What is another word for straight sinus?

Close synonyms include tentorial sinus, sinus rectus. 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 straight sinus a common word?

straight 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.