See Also: Stensen(medicine)
Stensen(dictionary)
Stensen's duct(medicine)
Stensen's experiment(medicine)
Stensen's foramen(medicine)
Stensen's plexus(medicine)
Stensen's veins(medicine)

Stensen (iou)



Stensen noun. Also Stenson. M19.
[Niels Stensen or Steensen (1638-86), Danish anatomist, geologist, and cleric. Cf. STENONIAN.]
Anatomy. Used in possess. to designate structures investigated by Stensen.
Stensen's canal either of two (sometimes four) canals through the bony palate, running from just behind the incisor teeth to each half of the nasal cavity. Stensen's duct the parotid duct. Stensen's foramen, pl. -mina, any of the orifices of Stensen's canals in the bony palate.