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.
maxillary sinus one of the paired paranasal sinuses in the body of the maxilla on either side, opening into the middle nasal meatus on the same side. occipital sinus a venous sinus between the layers of dura mater, passing upward along the midline of the cerebellum. paranasal s's the eight cavities in the skull that are connected with the nasal cavity (see also Plates).