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Definition of Cavity wall
1. Noun. A wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them.
Definition of Cavity wall
1. Noun. (construction) A double wall of masonry connected by an air space. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Cavity wall
1. One of the surfaces bounding a cavity. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavity Wall
Literary usage of Cavity wall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"cavity wall. A wall built with an Air Space (which see). Hollow Wall. Same as
cavity wall, above. Partition Wall. Same as Partition, but often used with the ..."
2. The Surgery of the Ear by Samuel Joseph Kopetzky (1908)
"... as the course of the epithelium is directed and deviated from the cavity wall
into the lumen of the cavity. The underlying annulus acts as a flange, ..."
3. Clinical Rheumatology: A Problem-oriented Approach to Diagnosis and Management by Roland W. Moskowitz (1921)
"From any one of the three sections select a field in the gingival third of the
labial or -buccal surface and indicate the line of a cavity wall in the same ..."
4. Hygiene and Public Health by Louis Coltman Parkes, Henry Richard Kenwood (1913)
"This arrangement necessitates two damp-proof courses—the lower just above the
footings, and the upper across the outer portion of the cavity wall slightly ..."
5. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1885)
"The fatal haemorrhage evidently resulted from separation of the cyst from the
surrounding lung tissue. It seems probable that bleeding from the cavity wall ..."
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