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oral cavity

n. (context medicine English) mouth

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oral cavity

n. the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [syn: mouth, oral fissure, rima oris]

Usage examples of "oral cavity".

The strategy, then, is to make the Cap'n Crunch chew itself by grinding the nuggets together in the center of the oral cavity, like stones in a lapidary tumbler.

The single glance he had had into the oral cavity gave him serious doubt that articulation as men knew it was possible.

The volume of fluid he presented her with exceeded the capacity of her oral cavity and a thin stream spurted from her lips and cascaded down over her face.

It tried to speak, but its tongue and oral cavity made the sounds incomprehensible.

These are teeth, this is a tongue, beyond is the oral cavity, in its natural state.

By relaxing the throat muscles and expanding the oral cavity well into the frontal sinuses, she could direct the vowel sounds into the most felicitous position for proper reproduction through her throat microphone.

Breath control and the proper enunciation of vowel sounds within the oral cavity appeared to require the most development and practice.

It pressed its great jaws against my face and, from its storage stomach, brought up water into its oral cavity, from which, holding it there, and rationing it out, bit by bit, it gave me of drink.

I do not, however, need to eat, though I can utilize the sensors in my oral cavity to simulate human responses to culinary matter.

It was difficult for them, of course, given the nature of their oral cavity, throat, tongue, lips and teeth, to produce human phonemes.

The body fur continued forward without thinning to cover its face, so that the only features visible were its large, black eyes, and when it opened its mouth, it displayed an oral cavity and teeth that were also deepest black.

She didn't have the oral cavity of a human, so her pronunciation should have been weird, to say the least.

A dark maroon residue clung to the outer edges of the round suckerlike oral cavity.

I put a cigarette between my lips, set a match to it, and trusted the tobacco to expel that obsessive taste of childhood from my oral cavity.

Its gross oral cavity writhed open, revealing Trugdlike rending teeth.