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SINUSITIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does sinusitis mean?

• SINUSITIS (noun)
The noun SINUSITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses

Familiarity information: SINUSITIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SINUSITIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("sinusitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sinusitis"):

pansinusitis (inflammation of all of the paranasal sinuses)

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