"buccal cavity" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: buccal cavities [plural]
Etymology: buccal (“of or pertaining to the cheek or mouth”) + cavity (“hollow area”) Etymology templates: {{m|en|buccal||of or pertaining to the cheek or mouth}} buccal (“of or pertaining to the cheek or mouth”), {{m|en|cavity||hollow area}} cavity (“hollow area”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} buccal cavity (plural buccal cavities)
  1. (of an animal) 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. Categories (topical): Anatomy Synonyms: mouth (english: in non-technical usage), oral cavity, mouth cavity
    Sense id: en-buccal_cavity-en-noun-qNcoG54z Disambiguation of Anatomy: 82 18
  2. (of an insect) 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.
    Sense id: en-buccal_cavity-en-noun-LQi2hcqq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 36 64

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