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ETHMOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
Synonyms:
ethmoid; ethmoid bone
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ethmoid" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
Holonyms ("ethmoid" is a part of...):
braincase; brainpan; cranium (the part of the skull that encloses the brain)
Context examples:
Less frequently, it arises from the nasal cavity, ethmoid sinus, sphenoid sinus, and frontal sinus.
(Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinus Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A finding about one or more characteristics of nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system.
(Nasal Cavity and Ethmoid Sinus Cancer TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)
Surgical removal of part of the ethmoid bone, using an intra-nasl approach.
(Intranasal Ethmoidectomy, NCI Thesaurus)
A primary or metastatic malignant neoplasm involving the ethmoid sinus.
(Malignant Ethmoid Sinus Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Inflammation of the ethmoid sinus that typically lasts beyond eight weeks.
(Chronic Ethmoidal Sinusitis, NCI Thesaurus)
Causes include skull trauma, middle ear infection, congenital heart disease, and frontal and ethmoid sinus infection.
(Cerebral Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign neoplasm that arises from the ciliated respiratory mucosa that lines the ethmoid sinus.
(Ethmoid Sinus Inverted Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenoid cystic carcinoma that affects the ethmoid sinus.
(Ethmoid Sinus Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenocarcinoma that arises from the ethmoid sinus.
(Ethmoid Sinus Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Ethmoid sinuses are found in the spongy ethmoid bone in the upper part of the nose between the eyes.
(Ethmoid sinus, NCI Dictionary)
