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.
Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) represents an uncommon form of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) characterized by progressive obliteration of the pulmonary venules, elevation of pulmonary arterial pressures, and increased pulmonary vascular resistance, leading to right ventricular failure and death (1-3).