cavitary

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

cavitary (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a (body) cavity.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 151:

     With that sentence, Orman entered the unfamiliar world of oncology – swallowed, like his own lump, into the bizarre, cavitary universe of cancer.

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

of or pertaining to a body cavity

• Spanish: cavitario m