cavity

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Woodpeckers carve nesting cavities in the softer dead trees and broken-off snags, then move on each year, leaving behind homes for other nesting creatures, such as nuthatches and chipmunks.

From Los Angeles Times

"Basically, he had a hole in his diaphragm which meant some of his organs had risen to his chest cavity, and they were pressing against his lungs so his lungs couldn't develop properly," Maddie said.

From BBC

To explore this challenge, the team studied cavity resonators.

From Science Daily

A major incident has been declared over what police have called a sinkhole at a canal in Shropshire, leaving boats either stricken in a gaping cavity or teetering on the edge of a drop.

From BBC

Details of the investigation, which relied on advanced imaging methods to examine the internal brain cavities of pterosaur fossils and received partial support from the National Science Foundation, appeared Nov. 26 in Current Biology.

From Science Daily