Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the ventricles of the brain.
- noun The interior of the cranium or skull, containing the brain.
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If this wretched little remnant were a coil of explosive fuse within the brain-cavity itself, which any jar might set off, it could hardly be richer in possibilities of danger.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Such a feature would imply, on the supposition that the heads were of the ordinary size, a large brain-cavity, and so an unusual volume of brain, which is generally a concomitant of high intellectual power.
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