🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

체강

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chegang

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Body cavity/ˈbɒdi ˈkævɪti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"인체의 체강은 내부 장기를 보호합니다."

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 German and Old English 'bodi', and 'cavity', originating from the Latin 'cavitas' (a hollow), via Old French 'cavité'. It emerged in modern anatomical nomenclature during the 18th century to describe the fluid-filled spaces in the human and animal body that house internal organs.

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