oral cavity

English

Noun

oral cavity (plural oral cavities)

1. (anatomy) The cavity of the mouth, especially the part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above by the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible.
2. (zootomy, in haustellate insects, rare) The hollow on the lower surface of the head from which the proboscis protrudes.

Translations

cavity of the mouth

• Bengali: মুখবিবর (mukhbibor)
• Catalan: cavitat oral (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口腔 (zh) (kǒuqiāng)

• Finnish: suuontelo (fi)
• Hungarian: szájüreg (hu)
• Kazakh: ауыз қуысы (auyz quysy)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: munnhule (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: munnhole f

• Polish: jama ustna (pl) f
• Romanian: cavitate bucală f
• Russian: ротова́я по́лость f (rotovája pólostʹ)
• Swedish: munhåla (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ротова́ порожни́на (uk) f (rotová porožnýna)
• Vietnamese: khoang miệng

References

• “oral cavity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “oral cavity”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.