buckle cavity

English

Etymology

Due to the substitution of the correct buccal (“of or pertaining to the cheek or mouth”) with its homophone and etymological relation buckle (“fastening metal rim”).

Noun

buckle cavity

1. Malapropistic misconstruction of buccal cavity
   • 1975, R. G. Chambers, Cancer of the Head and Neck: Proceedings of an International Symposium, Montreux, Switzerland, April 2–4, 1975, Excerpta Medica, →ISBN, page 177, →ISBN:

     The patient is also asked to swallow his own saliva after two weeks of the operation by efficiently closing the buckle cavity.

   • 2003, Jack Rootman, Diseases of the Orbit: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Wolters Kluwer Health, →ISBN, page 424:

     We have experienced a single case of a Rathke’s pouch cyst, which is a rare choristoma derived from a diverticulum of the embryonic buckle cavity (Fig. 11‒14).

   • 2007, Manorma Sharma, Special Education: Music Therapy, Theory and Practice, APH, →ISBN, page 6:

     Immanent sound in the human body is grouped into five types on the basis of its quality of development from the root of the naval to the cerebrum and the buckle cavity of the mouth through the heart and the throat.