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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
the cavity between the jaws and the cheeks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
History
From buccal (“of or pertaining to the cheek or mouth”) + cavity (“hollow area”).
