🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

cavità corporea

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kaviˈta korˈpɔːrea

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Body Cavity/ˈbɒdi ˈkæv.ɪ.ti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La cavità corporea contiene gli organi vitali."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Any fluid-filled space in a multicellular organism that houses and protects internal organs.

    "The thoracic body cavity contains the heart and lungs."
  2. 2

    Specifically, any of the major closed spaces in the human body, such as the cranial, thoracic, abdominal, or pelvic cavities.

    "Surgeons examined the abdominal body cavity for signs of internal trauma."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'body', derived from Old English 'bodig' meaning the trunk or physical frame of a human or animal, and 'cavity', borrowed from Old French 'cavité' and ultimately from Latin 'cavitas', meaning a hollow place. Together in anatomical terminology, they describe the fluid-filled spaces within the body that house internal organs.

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