English Explanatory Dictionary

buccal cavity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The oral cavity, bound by the cheeks of the face, the palate, and the flesh of the mandible, opening onto the mouth and the fauces, and containing the teeth, tongue, gums, and other structures.
  2. The first part of the stomodaeum, lying just within the mouth; its dilator muscles arising on the clypeus, and inserted before the frontal ganglion and its connectives.

Word forms

buccal cavity buccal cavities

Etymology

From buccal (“of or pertaining to the cheek or mouth”) + cavity (“hollow area”).

Synonyms

mouth oral cavity mouth cavity
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