cavitary

adj

cavitary

adj

Etymology From Latin cavitas (“cavity”) + -ary.

1

Of or pertaining to a (body) cavity.

  • With that sentence, Orman entered the unfamiliar world of oncology – swallowed, like his own lump, into the bizarre, cavitary universe of cancer.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 151:
Derived terms
bicavitary, bronchocavitary, dicavitary, endocavitary, extracavitary, fibrocavitary, intercavitary, intracavitary, noncavitary, paracavitary, tetracavitary, transcavitary

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