Communicating with Coworkers. As a medical assistant, you are part of a larger health-care team. The quality of communication that you have with your coworkers is vitally important and influences the development of positive or negative work environments, as well as a team approach to patient care.
venous sinus in Medicine Expand. venous sinus n. A cavity at the caudal end of the embryonic cardiac tube in which veins from the intra- and extraembryonic circulatory arcs unite. In adults it develops into the sinuses of the venae cavae.
sphenoid sinus (sphenoidal sinus) one of the paired paranasal sinuses in the body of the sphenoid bone, opening into the superior nasal meatus on the same side. sphenoparietal sinus one of the venous sinuses of the dura mater, emptying into the cavernous sinus.