What's the difference between cavity and chamber?

Cavity


Definition:

  • (n.) Hollowness.
  • (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
  • (2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
  • (4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
  • (14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
  • (15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
  • (17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
  • (18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
  • (19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
  • (20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.

Chamber


Definition:

  • (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
  • (n.) Apartments in a lodging house.
  • (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
  • (n.) A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
  • (n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
  • (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
  • (n.) A chamber pot.
  • (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
  • (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
  • (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
  • (v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  • (v. i.) To be lascivious.
  • (v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (2) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (3) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (5) and then placed in the chamber containing a CO atmosphere (0.325-0.375%).
  • (6) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
  • (7) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (8) The compatibility with Gentamycin solution used for irrigation of the anterior chamber of the eye was studied in experiments performed on rabbits.
  • (9) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
  • (10) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
  • (13) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
  • (14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
  • (15) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
  • (16) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
  • (17) The energy required for perforation from the external surface to the anterior chamber was the same as the energy required for ab interno perforation.
  • (18) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
  • (19) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
  • (20) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.