cavity

cav·i·ty

C0176700 (kăv′ĭ-tē)n. pl. cav·i·ties 1. A hollow; a hole.2. A hollow area within the body: a sinus cavity.3. A pitted area in a tooth caused by caries.

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[French cavité, from Late Latin cavitās, from Latin cavus, hollow; see keuə- in Indo-European roots.]

cavity

(ˈkævɪtɪ) n, pl -ties1. a hollow space; hole2. (Dentistry) dentistry a soft decayed area on a tooth. See caries3. (Anatomy) any empty or hollow space within the body: the oral cavity. 4. (Electronics) electronics See cavity resonator[C16: from French cavité, from Late Latin cavitās, from Latin cavus hollow]

cav•i•ty

(ˈkæv ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties. 1. any hollow place; hollow. 2. a hollow space within the body, an organ, a bone, etc. 3. a hollow space or a pit in a tooth, commonly produced by decay. [1535–45; < Middle French cavite < Late Latin cavitās hollowness < Latin cav(us) hollow]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cavity - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"pittrou-de-loup - a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemybarbecue pit - a pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meatborrow pit - a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another sitedivot - (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke; "it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot"fire pit - a pit whose floor is incandescent lava; "the fire pit of the crater"hollow, hole - a depression hollowed out of solid matterquicksand - a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked downsandpit - a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dugsawpit - a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed sawtar pit - a natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved
	2.	cavity - space that is surrounded by somethingenclosed spacespace - an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth"hollow - a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"sac, sack, pocket, pouch - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
	3.	cavity - soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a toothcaries, dental caries, tooth decaydecay - the process of gradually becoming inferior
	4.	cavity - (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the bodybodily cavity, cavumblastocele, blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity - the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastulaarchenteron - central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavitybody, organic structure, physical structure - the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure"sinus - any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skulllocule, loculus - a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animallumen - a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine"socket - a bony hollow into which a structure fitspulp 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 eyeballbuccal cavity - the cavity between the jaws and the cheeksantrum - a natural cavity or hollow in a bonecloaca - (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 openvestibule - 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 thymusmiddle ear, tympanic cavity, tympanum - the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner earpleural cavity - the cavity in the thorax that contains the lungs and heartchamber - an enclosed volume in the body; "the chambers of his heart were healthy"cranial cavity, intracranial cavity - the cavity enclosed by the craniumamniotic cavity - the fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryogreater peritoneal sac, peritoneal cavity - the interior of the peritoneum; a potential space between layers of the peritoneumbursa omentalis, lesser peritoneal cavity, omental bursa - an isolated part of the peritoneal cavity that is dorsal to the stomachpericardial cavity, pericardial space - the space between the layers of the pericardium that contains fluid that lubricates the membrane surfaces and allows easy heart movementvacuole - a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cellventricle - one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluidsac - a structure resembling a bag in an animaluterine cavity - the space inside the uterus between the cervical canal and the Fallopian tubesnasal 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 pharynxnasopharynx - cavity forming the upper part of the pharynxoropharynx - cavity formed by the pharynx at the back of the mouthlaryngopharynx - the lower part of the pharynxblind 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 tubearmpit, 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 heartabdominal cavity, abdomen - the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragmrenal pelvis, pelvis - a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureterpelvic cavity - the space bounded by the bones of the pelvis and containing the pelvic visceracelom, celoma, coelom - a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavityanatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animalsfossa, pit - a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

cavity

noun hollow, hole, gap, pit, dent, crater The sinuses are four sets of air-filled cavities leading directly from the nose.

cavity

nounA space in an otherwise solid mass:hole, hollow, pocket, vacuity, void.

Translations

洞

cavity

(ˈkӕvəti) – plural ˈcavities – noun a hollow place; a hole. The dentist said she had three cavities in her teeth; The thief hid the necklace in a cavity in the wall. 凹洞 洞