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cavity

noun as in sunken or decayed area

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Some have speculated that cessation of CPR decreases pressure in the chest cavity, allowing blood to return to the heart.

The force of the two reacting spreads the foam through the chest cavity, hardening to apply pressure to any bleed sites.

Injuries within the chest cavity may not be readily visible to medics, and are difficult to compress, King said.

Take a “cavity bomb,” for example: explosives hidden in rolls of fat, between butt cheeks.

Heaven help us the first time a would-be suicide bomber is caught with explosives hidden in a body cavity.

There appears a rude attempt to picture the mouth cavity and to show those interesting accessories, the teeth.

In addition, chylous and chyloid exudates are occasionally met, particularly in the peritoneal cavity.

In this specimen the tubular cavity of the stalactite is still open.

All about the cavity in the sand lay stones big and little, timbers, stakes, loops of rope.

They were carried up to the top of the tree, and disappeared, still fighting, within the cavity.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cavity, such as: crater, armpit, atrium, basin, bursa, and caries.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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