Vi fant 11 definisjoner av cavity på engelsk.
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| cavity - (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body | ||
| bodily cavity, cavum | ||
| anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" | ||
| organic structure, physical structure, body the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" | ||
| general anatomy, anatomy a detailed analysis; "he studied the anatomy of crimes" | ||
| blastocele, blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | ||
| archenteron central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity | ||
| sinus any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull | ||
| 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; "the lumen of the intestine" | ||
| socket a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted | ||
| pulp cavity the central cavity of a tooth containing the pulp (including the root canal) | ||
| cranial orbit, eye socket, orbital cavity, orbit the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball | ||
| buccal cavity the cavity between the jaws and the cheeks | ||
| antrum a natural cavity or hollow in a bone | ||
| 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 | ||
| vestibule any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) | ||
| 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; between the eardrum and the inner ear | ||
| pleural cavity the cavity in the thorax that contains the lungs and heart | ||
| chamber a natural or artificial enclosed space | ||
| cranial cavity, intracranial cavity the cavity enclosed by the cranium | ||
| amniotic cavity the fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryo | ||
| greater peritoneal sac, peritoneal cavity the interior of the peritoneum; a potential space between layers of the peritoneum | ||
| bursa omentalis, lesser peritoneal cavity, omental bursa an isolated part of the peritoneal cavity that is dorsal to the stomach | ||
| 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 | ||
| vacuole a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell | ||
| ventricle a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries | ||
| sac a structure resembling a bag in an animal | ||
| uterine cavity the space inside the uterus between the cervical canal and the Fallopian tubes | ||
| 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 | ||
| laryngopharynx the lower part of the pharynx | ||
| blind gut, caecum, cecum the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum" | ||
| tubular cavity a cavity having the shape of a tube | ||
| armpit, axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" | ||
| 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 | ||
| abdominal cavity, abdomen the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm | ||
| renal pelvis, pelvis a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter | ||
| pelvic cavity the space bounded by the bones of the pelvis and containing the pelvic viscera | ||
| celom, celoma, coelom a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | ||
| cavity - space that is surrounded by something | ||
| enclosed space | ||
| space the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite" | ||
| hollow a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" | ||
| cavity - soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth | ||
| caries, dental caries, tooth decay | ||
| decay the organic phenomenon of rotting | ||
| cavity - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body" | ||
| pit | ||
| hollow, hole a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" | ||
| trou-de-loup a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy | ||
| barbecue pit a pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat | ||
| borrow pit a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site | ||
| divot a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) | ||
| fire pit a pit whose floor is incandescent lava; "the fire pit of the crater" | ||
| 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 | ||
