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Definition of Cavitary
1. a. Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.
Definition of Cavitary
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a (body) cavity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cavitary
1. pertaining to the formation of cavities in tissue [adj]
Medical Definition of Cavitary
1. 1. Relating to a cavity or having a cavity or cavities. 2. Denoting any animal parasite that has an enteric canal or body cavity and that lives within the host's body. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavitary
Literary usage of Cavitary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1856)
"The cavitary fluid of the nematodes consists of a smooth, oily, homogeneous
liquid, having a slightly yellow tinge, and entirely amorphous under the ..."
2. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... and it is obvious that they constitute the channels of communication between
the cavitary system of each zone and that of the zones internal and ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The digestion of a food-particle by a Protozoon is intra-cellular, and has been
contrasted with the cavitary digestion of higher animals. ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"... and in and by which the cavitary fluid was brought into contact with the ...
was thus established between the branchiae and the cavitary fluid in the ..."
5. Pulmonary tuberculosis by Maurice Fishberg (1919)
"inasmuch as profuse bleeding implies an old cavitary lesion. But in bilateral
cases it is difficult, often impossible, to determine positively which lung is ..."
6. The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal (1870)
"Heretofore, in one of my notes to the translation of Graves' Clinical Lectures,
I pointed out these phenomena which I propose to you to call pseudo-cavitary ..."
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