Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cavernous sinus

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English

Syllables: cav-ernous s-i-nus
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of a pair of large venous sinuses situated in a groove at the side of the body of the sphenoid bone in the cranial cavity and opening behind into the petrosal sinuses.

Inflected Forms

cavernous sinuses (plural)

Synonyms

sinus cavernosus

Questions

What does cavernous sinus mean?: Either of a pair of large venous sinuses situated in a groove at the side of the body of the sphenoid bone in the cranial cavity and opening behind into the petrosal sinuses.

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