tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ
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the curve of y=sin x
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Sinusoid \Si"nus*oid\, n. [Sinus + -oid.] (Geom.) The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. It is also called the {curve of sines}.