home / medterms medical dictionary a-z list / ethmoid sinus definition Medical Definition of Ethmoid sinus Ethmoid sinus: A collection of air cells within the ethmoid bone, a spongy bone which makes up the front of the floor of the skull and the roof of the nose. From the Greek ethmos, sieve + eidos, resemblance = like a sieve.
Confidence votes 84.8K. It takes 4.05 hours to 4.12 hours for light from the sun to reach Neptune, depending where it is in it's orbit. It takes 4.05 hours to 4.12 hours for light from the sun to reach Neptune, depending where it is in it's orbit.
Neptune is about 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from the sun. Because Neptune is so far from the sun, it receives very little sunlight. In fact, the sunlight that reaches Neptune is 900 times less intense than the sunlight that reaches Earth.