venous sinus

Questions about venous sinus

What does venous sinus mean?

venous sinus means "a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel".

What is another word for venous sinus?

Close synonyms include sinus. 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 venous sinus a common word?

venous 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.