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The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.

A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.

The fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.

The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.

es can hardly be effaced. -- Metallic tinking (Med.), a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with the air passages contains both air and liquid.

nto a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.

Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to Ant: megacephalic.

precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.

A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.

The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold. Milton.

udinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.

A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon. Mortise and tenon (Carp.), made with a mortise and tenon; joined or united by means of a mortise and tenon; -- used adjectively. -- Mortise joint, a joint made by a mortise and…

ich an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.

The cavity of a nectocalyx.

The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.

A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative. Images defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed. Evelun.

), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. -- Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. -- Nu"tri*tive*ness, n.

One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.

The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. B. G. Wilder.