Cavity meaning

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The definition of a cavity is a hole or hollow place.

An example of a cavity is a hole in a tooth.

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A hollow; a hole.
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A hollow area within the body.

A sinus cavity.

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A pitted area in a tooth caused by caries.
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A hole or hollow place.
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A natural hollow place within the body.

The abdominal cavity.

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A hollow place in a tooth, esp. when caused by decay.
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A space enclosed by metal and with a rodlike projection in the center, used as a resonator, as with a magnetron to produce electromagnetic waves, esp. microwaves.
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A hollow area within the body.

A sinus cavity.

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A pitted area in a tooth caused by caries.
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A hollow; a hole.
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A hollow area within the body.
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A pitted area in a tooth caused by caries.
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A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
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(dentistry) A soft area in a decayed tooth.
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Origin of cavity

  • French cavité from Late Latin cavitās from Latin cavus hollow keuə- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle French cavité, from Late Latin cavitas, from Latin cavus (“hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos, from root Proto-Indo-European *ḱówH-
    From Wiktionary

Cavity Sentence Examples

  • These processes stretch across the body cavity to be inserted in the dorsal and ventral middle lines.

  • It is seen from the foregoing account of medusa - budding that the entocodon is a very important constituent of the bud, furnishing some of the most essential portions of the medusa; its cavity becomes the subumbral cavity, and its lining furnishes the ectodermal epithelium of the manubrium and of the sub-umbral cavity as far as the edge of the velum.

  • the future D, E); the cavity A between the two B C walls of the cup FIG.

  • The sub-umbral cavity (s.c.) functions as a brood-space for the developing embryos, which are set free by rupture of the wall.

  • ` tion of the coelenteric 1 V cavity; in the second stage the tentacles Much modified from C. Chun, " Coelenterata," in grow out as secondary Bronn's Tierreich.

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