sinus vs epithelial duct

epithelial duct vs sinus

sinus and epithelial duct both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sinus	Yes	No	No	No
epithelial duct	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, epithelial duct is a hypernym of sinus; that is, epithelial duct is a word with a broader meaning than sinus:

sinus: a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel
epithelial duct: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

Other hypernyms of sinus include canal, channel, duct.

sinus (noun)	epithelial duct (noun)
a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel	a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull
an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface

Difference between sinus and epithelial duct

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