English > cavity: 4 senses > noun 1, objectMeaning | A sizeable hole (usually in the ground). |
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Synonym | pit |
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Narrower | barbecue pit | A pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat |
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borrow pit | A pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site |
divot | (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke |
fire pit | A pit whose floor is incandescent lava |
quicksand | A pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down |
sandpit | A large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug |
sawpit | A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw |
tar pit | A natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth |
trou-de-loup | A sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy / enemy |
Broader | hole, hollow | A depression hollowed out of solid matter |
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Spanish | brecha, cavidad, fosa, foso, hoyo, pozo |
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Catalan | cavitat, clot, fossa, sot |
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English > cavity: 4 senses > noun 4, bodyMeaning | (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus / sinus within the body. |
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Synonyms | bodily cavity, cavum |
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Category | anatomy, general anatomy | The branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals |
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Part of | body, organic structure | The entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) |
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Narrower | abdominal cavity, abdomen | The cavity containing the major viscera |
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amniotic cavity | The fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryo |
antrum | A natural cavity or hollow in a bone |
archenteron | central cavity of the gastrula |
armpit, axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa | The hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder |
blastocoel, blastocoele, blastocele, segmentation cavity, cleavage cavity | The fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
buccal cavity | The cavity between the jaws / jaws and the cheeks |
bursa omentalis, omental bursa, lesser peritoneal cavity | An isolated part of the peritoneal cavity that is dorsal to the stomach |
cecum, caecum, blind gut | The cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens |
celom, coelom, celoma | A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity |
chamber | An enclosed volume in the body |
chest cavity, thoracic cavity | The cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart |
cloaca | (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open |
cranial cavity, intracranial cavity | The cavity enclosed by the cranium |
eye socket, orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity | The bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball |
laryngopharynx | The lower part of the pharynx |
locule, loculus | A small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal |
lumen | A cavity or passage in a tubular organ |
mediastinum | The part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus |
middle ear, tympanic cavity, tympanum | The main cavity of the ear |
nasal cavity | Either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx |
nasopharynx | cavity forming the upper part of the pharynx |
oropharynx | cavity formed by the pharynx at the back of the mouth |
pelvic cavity | The space bounded by the bones of the pelvis and containing the pelvic viscera |
pelvis, renal pelvis | A structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter |
pericardial cavity, pericardial space | The space between the layers of the pericardium that contains fluid that lubricates the membrane surfaces and allows easy heart movement |
peritoneal cavity, greater peritoneal sac | The interior of the peritoneum |
pit, fossa | A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) |
pleural cavity | The cavity in the thorax that contains the lungs and heart |
pulp cavity | The central cavity of a tooth containing the pulp (including the root canal) |
sac | A structure resembling a bag in an animal |
sinus | Any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull |
socket | A bony hollow into which a structure fits |
tubular cavity | A cavity having the shape of a tube |
uterine cavity | The space inside the uterus between the cervical canal and the Fallopian tubes |
vacuole | A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell |
ventricle | One of four connected cavities in the brain |
vestibule | Any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) |
Broader | structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure | A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
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Spanish | cavidad corporal, cavidad |
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Catalan | cavitat |
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