cavity

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I hope they give football fans a full body cavity search.

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Quick take

a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cavity gathered in one view.

noun

a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"

noun

space that is surrounded by something

noun

soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cavity.

noun

a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"

noun

space that is surrounded by something

noun

soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth

noun

(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body

Example sentences

I hope they give football fans a full body cavity search.

We won't even notice -- it's not intrusive in the same way that a cavity search is.

On the face, there are only 4 places where this is possible: The earlobe, the nasal cavity, the lip fold and the tongue.

Early surveys of eskimos that had never eaten Western food showed that most never have had a cavity in their lives.

It seems like there's a lot that could be done to curtail the use of cell phones in prisons that wouldn't require invasive body-cavity searches.

His willingness to endure all the cavity searches he'll be subjected to before and after every flight inspires us all.

You're dealing with two independent heating/control circuits and on top of that you need to manage a cavity that's at 100% humidity.

These are the energy sources for plaque/cavity causing bacteria.

The main thing is to relax the muscles and tissues surrounding the chest cavity and give those sensations an opportunity to move and flow.

Yes, everyone should allow themselves to be subjected to a physical cavity search unless they have something to hide /sarc

My go to is something along the lines of:You disapprove of mandatory cavity searches before air travel or entering a school?

Yeah, that's probably going to require grafts from somewhere inside your mouth and will require seeing an oral surgeon if your dentist doesn't already do it. Overall, the experience won't be as..."simple" as a cavity filling.

The most disturbing thing about this article is this fact:"But in a recent poll, one-third of Americans said they would be in favor of cavity searches to board a plane.

But if you happen to swallow two tiny rare earth magnets, what can happen is that they latch together on opposing sides of loops of small intestine, gradually digging their way through the tissue and spilling gut bacteria into the abdominal cavity, which results in sepsis.

He has documented over 600 scans of people with hydrocephalus and has broken them into four groups: -those with nearly normal brains -those with 50-70% of the cranium filled with cerebrospinal fluid -those with 70-90% of the cranium filled with cerebrospinal fluid -and the most severe group with 95% of the cranial cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid.