ORAL CAVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oral cavity mean? 

• ORAL CAVITY (noun)
  The noun ORAL CAVITY has 1 sense:

1. the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge

  Familiarity information: ORAL CAVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORAL CAVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris

Context example:

he stuffed his mouth with candy

Hypernyms ("oral cavity" is a kind of...):

rima (a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts)

Meronyms (parts of "oral cavity"):

dentition; teeth (the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal)

clapper; glossa; lingua; tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity)

buccal cavity (the cavity between the jaws and the cheeks)

gingiva; gum (the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth)

palate; roof of the mouth (the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities)

salivary gland (any of three pairs of glands in the mouth and digestive system that secrete saliva for digestion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oral cavity"):

cakehole; gob; hole; maw; trap; yap (informal terms for the mouth)

Holonyms ("oral cavity" is a part of...):

mouth (the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening)

 Context examples 

A small salivary gland located in the oral cavity.

(Minor Salivary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity.

(MIR195 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-neoplastic disorder that affects the oral cavity.

(Non-Neoplastic Oral Cavity Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenocarcinoma that arises from the oral cavity.

(Oral Cavity Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity that arises from the floor of the mouth.

(Floor of Mouth Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the oral cavity that arises from the floor of the mouth.

(Floor of Mouth Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The profession concerned with the teeth, oral cavity, and associated structures, and the diagnosis and treatment of their diseases including prevention and the restoration of defective and missing tissue.

(Dentistry, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The portion of the salivary system that conveys the saliva produced in the acinar salivary gland system to the oral cavity.

(Duct Salivary Gland System, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenoid cystic carcinoma of the oral cavity that arises from the floor of the mouth.

(Floor of Mouth Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A monomorphic or pleomorphic adenoma that arises from the salivary glands in the oral cavity.

(Oral Cavity Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)