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.
Instead, Neptune orbits the Sun in an elliptical orbit. At its closest point, Neptune gets within 4.45 billion km, and then orbits out to a distance of 4.55 billion km. It takes almost 165 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.