abdominal cavity

1. 1.

   the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm

   Synonymsabdomen

   Broadercavity

   Part ofabdomen

Questions about abdominal cavity

What does abdominal cavity mean?

abdominal cavity means "the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm".

What is another word for abdominal cavity?

Close synonyms include abdomen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abdominal cavity a common word?

abdominal cavity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.