inferior sagittal sinus
Sinus sagittalis inferior
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Definition
An intracranial venous sinus that lies in a midline location along the lower free border of the falx cerebri of the brain. The sinus receives blood from the great cerebral vein and joins the superior sagittal sinus posteriorly.
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Venous drainage
- straight sinus
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 4854
- TA98
- A12.3.05.111
- FMA
- 50768
- UBERON
- 0007152
- Wikidata
- Q12764815
