transverse sinus

One of the dural venous sinuses and drains the superior sagittal sinus the occipital sinus and the straight sinus, and empties into the sigmoid sinus which in turn reaches the jugular bulb. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the transverse sinus is

One of the dural venous sinuses and drains the superior sagittal sinus the occipital sinus and the straight sinus, and empties into the sigmoid sinus which in turn reaches the jugular bulb. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the transverse sinus is

It sits in the head, within the cardiovascular and nervous systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the transverse sinus connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of head.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: sigmoid sinus, inferior anastomotic vein and vein of vestibular aqueduct.

Also called

Also recorded as sinus transversus durae matris, groove for right and left transverse sinuses, lateral sinus, sinus transversus, transverse sinus and transverse sinus vein. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001641, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: head.
A kind of: paired venous dural sinus.
Connected to: inferior cerebellar vein and inferior cerebral vein.
drains to: sigmoid sinus, inferior anastomotic vein and vein of vestibular aqueduct.

Questions

Where is the transverse sinus?

What does the transverse sinus connect to?

Part of: head.

Is the transverse sinus the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.