Synonyms for cavity
ˈkæv ɪ ticav·i·ty

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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

Matched Categories

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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cavitynoun

   Synonyms:
   hollow, aperture, opening

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "cavity":

   recess, pit, carrie

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

1. cavity

   Synonyms:
   Anatomy-cavitas Ballistics Dentistry Tuberculosis

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1. 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.

2. Pamela Robey:

   My fellows, Songtao Shi and Stan Gronthos, did the work in my lab, songtao Shi is a dentist, and basically Songtao Shi observed that, when you get a cavity, you get what's called' reparative dentin.' In other words, the tooth is trying to protect itself from that cavity, so it makes a little bit of dentin to kind of plug the hole, so to speak.

3. Ed Matthew:

   There are different kinds of insulation measures, cavity wall insulation, loft insulation and draft-proofing are very cost-effective, while solid wall installation is much more complex and expensive.

4. Jason Conn:

   You deal with it all day. You’re out baiting, trying your best to manage the situation, then come home and just the stench of dead mice, they’re in the roof cavity of your house. If your house is not well sealed, they’re in bed with you. People are getting bitten in bed.

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.