Antonyms for cavity
ˈkæv ɪ ticav·i·ty

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1. • Anatomy
   • Decay
   • Hole
   • Space
   • Structure

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1. pit, cavitynoun

   a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)

   "they dug a pit to bury the body"

   Synonyms:
   fossa, stone pit, infernal region, enclosed space, quarry, cavum, dental caries, nether region, endocarp, pit, stone, perdition, caries, colliery, tooth decay, pitfall, orchestra pit, bodily cavity

2. cavity, enclosed spacenoun

   space that is surrounded by something

   Synonyms:
   bodily cavity, pit, enclosed space, caries, cavum, tooth decay, dental caries

3. cavity, caries, dental caries, tooth decaynoun

   soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth

   Synonyms:
   bodily cavity, pit, enclosed space, caries, cavum, tooth decay, dental caries

4. cavity, bodily cavity, cavumnoun

   (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body

   Synonyms:
   bodily cavity, pit, enclosed space, caries, cavum, tooth decay, dental caries

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. cavity

   Synonyms:
   Anatomy-cavitas Ballistics Dentistry Tuberculosis

How to use cavity in a sentence?

1. Elizabeth Steensma:

   That strep organism, that is really common, somehow that went from his pharynx in his throat and made its way into his abdominal cavity.

2. Kareem Abu-Elmagd:

   Everybody was excited in the operating room when we had the organs in, they fit in his abdominal cavity and the whole team was so excited that we were able to Vic with the new organs.

3. Siddharth Lakhotia:

   Air and blood flooded the chest cavity. The local police provided the medical facility with great readiness, when this patient came to us, he was unconscious. It seemed almost impossible that he would survive. The only way to save him was to remove the rod by surgery and pray to God.

4. Montgomery County Coroner Kent Harshbarger:

   A pipe device was found in his pocket with an attached clear plastic baggie that has been determined to contain cocaine, and the assailant's cavity blood sample was found to contain cocaine, alprazolam and ethanol.

5. Bobby Elesky:

   There were times when the air quality was so bad that you would just drop to your knees and throw up, we made jokes at the time because we had no idea how serious it was.’ But Elesky says he found out when he returned home in 2005 and was told during a checkup that he had nearly 20 parasites in his body. More than a decade after his return, Elskey has suffered from myriad health issues, including plasmacytoma -- a condition where rare tumors attack soft tissue in the nasal cavity or bone marrow. He is grateful for the treatment he has received from the VA, but said the bureaucracy was difficult to deal with. Elesky said he was initially denied enrollment into the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ Burn Pit Registry -- which was created to research and examine the potential threats from burn pit exposure.

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