ABDOMINAL CAVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abdominal cavity mean? 

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

1. the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABDOMINAL CAVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

abdomen; abdominal cavity

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

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

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

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

 Context examples 

Administration of the drug within the abdominal cavity, typically as a loco-regional therapy for disease confined to the abdomen.

(Intraabdominal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatment in which anticancer drugs are put directly into the abdominal cavity through a thin tube.

(Intraperitoneal chemotherapy, NCI Dictionary)

A method of delivering fluids and drugs directly into the abdominal cavity through a thin tube.

(Intraperitoneal infusion, NCI Dictionary)

A benign or malignant extra-adrenal paraganglioma arising from the abdominal cavity.

(Intra-Abdominal Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A lymphangioma arising from the organs of the abdominal cavity.

(Intra-Abdominal Lymphangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Swelling of the abdomen resulting from excessive food intake, malnutrition, liver disease, primary abdominal tumors, and tumors metastatic to the abdominal cavity.

(Abdominal Distention, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by bleeding in the abdominal cavity.

(Intra-Abdominal Hemorrhage, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A long, thin tube with a camera lens attached that allows the physician to examine the organs inside the abdominal cavity.

(Laparoscope, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical appliance inserted into an incision for laparoscopic examination that provides a pathway for allows other laparoscopy devices to pass through the skin and into the abdominal cavity.

(Laparoscopic Port, NCI Thesaurus)

The presence of abundant mucoid or gelatinous, cellular or acellular material in the pelvis and abdominal cavity (pseudomyxoma peritonei) that is associated with the presence of an ovarian mucinous cystic tumor.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor Associated with Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, NCI Thesaurus)