Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hollow; caval; cavernous; having a cavity; specifically, in biology, cœlomatous; of or pertaining to the cœloma, or the perivisceral space or body-cavity; having a body-cavity.
- Having an enteric cavity or intestinal tract; enteric; intestinal.
- noun A worm or entozoön having an intestinal canal in a distinct abdominal cavity; one of the Cavitaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Containing a body cavity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a (body)
cavity
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Examples
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With that sentence, Orman entered the unfamiliar world of oncology—swallowed, like his own lump, into the bizarre, cavitary universe of cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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With that sentence, Orman entered the unfamiliar world of oncology—swallowed, like his own lump, into the bizarre, cavitary universe of cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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With that sentence, Orman entered the unfamiliar world of oncology—swallowed, like his own lump, into the bizarre, cavitary universe of cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Among MMPs, MMP-9 is expressed at various clinical categories of tuberculosis disease like active cavitary tuberculosis
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kushagra Bansal et al. 2009
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In this report we present a patient with a cavitary lesion at his right upper lobe, found by chance on chest radiography.
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However, multiple cavitary lesions were found on routine chest radiography.
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Acute cavitary histoplasmosis rhesus monkeys - effect immunological status
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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