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SINUS [6 records]

Record 1 2011-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

The space or position (not a structure) between two lobes or other divisions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

A fistula or tract leading to a suppurating cavity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
CONT

Une fistule est un canal qui se forme et qui met en communication deux organes (fistule interne) ou un organe et la peau (fistule externe).

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

A slit or a rounded or V-shaped notch in the proximal lip of the orifice in some ascophoran cheilostomes (bryozoans), serving as an inlet to the ascus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Échancrure proximale de l'apertura correspondant à une rimule : c'est l'orifice de la compensatrice [chez un Bryozoaire].

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

[A] major rounded depression of [a brachiopod] shell along [the] longitudinal mid-line affecting both [the] outer and inner surfaces.

OBS

[It is] generally on [the] pedicle valve.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[...] le milieu des valves [de certains brachiopodes] possède une sorte de [...] bourrelet correspondant à une dépression, [le] sinus de la valve opposée.

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
DEF

A recess cavity or hollow space in the body.

OBS

May be a normal air cavity such as the maxillary sinus or pathological as in a draining fistula from an infected tooth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
DEF

Chambre ou cavité corporelle.

OBS

Surtout dans un os. Peut être une cavité aérienne normale, comme le sinus maxillaire, ou pathologique, comme dans une fistule de drainage d'une dent infectée.

Spanish

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Record 6 1977-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

[In a nautiloid conch it is] any part of [a] transverse feature (apertural margin, ribs, growth lines) concave toward [the] aperture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

Le péristome [d'un nautile], souvent simple, peut présenter des sinuosités: [les] concavités [sont des sinus] [...]

Spanish

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