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cavitary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Latin cavitas (“cavity”) + -ary.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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:

Deriveds

bicavitary · extracavitary · fibrocavitary · noncavitary · intracavitary · dicavitary · bronchocavitary · endocavitary · intercavitary · transcavitary · paracavitary · tetracavitary

Translations (1)

es cavitario (of or pertaining to a body cavity)