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Maxillary Sinus

"Maxillary Sinus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The air space located in the body of the MAXILLARY BONE near each cheek. Each maxillary sinus communicates with the middle passage (meatus) of the NASAL CAVITY on the same side.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Maxillary Sinus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Maxillary Sinus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2013 and 2015
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