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. Stanton Glantz:

   Vaping affects your lungs at every level. It affects the immune function in your nasal cavity by affecting cilia which push foreign things out... [ T ] he ability of your upper airways to clear viruses is compromised.

2. Stephanie Baker:

   This find really challenged us. We compared the assembled skullcap to all of the other examples of hominins in the Cradle area. Eventually, its teardrop shape and relatively big brain cavity meant we were looking at Homo erectus.

3. 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.

4. Elisabeth Hildebrand:

   By constructing the mortuary cavity, people created a shared space where community members could be placed all together, without any sign of certain individuals being given primacy.

5. 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.

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