Cavity
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
A cavity is a hole. It may refer to:
- Dental cavity, damage to the structure of teeth
- Resonator, a device designed to select for waves of particular wavelengths
- Optical cavity, the cavity resonator of a laser
- Cavitation, the phenomenon of partial vacuums forming in fluid, for example, in propellors
- Cavitary pneumonia, a type of pneumonia in which a hole is formed in the lung
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