bodily cavity

1. 1.

   (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body

   Synonymscavitycavum

   Broaderstructure

   Narrowerblastocoelarchenteronsinusloculelumensocketpulp cavityeye socketbuccal cavityantrum

   Part ofbody

   anatomy

Questions about bodily cavity

What does bodily cavity mean?

bodily cavity means "(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body".

What is another word for bodily cavity?

Close synonyms include cavity, cavum. 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 bodily cavity a common word?

bodily 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.