CAVITY
Definition:
- [noun] a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
Synonyms: pit
- [noun] space that is surrounded by something
Synonyms: enclosed space
- [noun] soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth
Synonyms: caries, dental caries, tooth decay
- [noun] (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
Synonyms: bodily cavum
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Related Words:
- barbecue pit
- borrow pit
- divot
- fire pit
- quicksand
- sandpit
- sawpit
- tar pit
- hollow
- pouch, sac, sack, pocket
- blastocoel, blastocoele, blastocele, segmentation cavity, cleavage cavity
- archenteron
- sinus
- locule, loculus
- lumen
- socket
- pulp cavity
- eye socket, orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity
- buccal cavity
- antrum
- vestibule
- mediastinum
- middle ear, tympanic cavity, tympanum
- pleural cavity
- chamber
- cranial cavity, intracranial cavity
- amniotic cavity
- peritoneal cavity, greater peritoneal sac
- bursa omentalis, omental bursa, lesser peritoneal cavity
- pericardial cavity, pericardial space
- vacuole
- ventricle
- sac
- uterine cavity
- nasal cavity
- nasopharynx
- oropharynx
- laryngopharynx
- cecum, caecum, blind gut
- tubular cavity
- armpit, axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa
- chest cavity, thoracic cavity
- abdominal cavity, abdomen
- pelvis, renal pelvis
- pelvic cavity
- celom, coelom, celoma
- pit, fossa
