What is the medical term meaning cavity?

Answer 1

The heart is located in the mediastinal cavity or the mediastinum.

Answer 2

Fossa is an anatomic cavity; caries is a dental cavity.
Sinus

Answer 3

The thoracic cavity or thorax is the medical term for the chest cavity.

Answer 4

Mediastium (in the middle) is the center area of the thoracic (chest) cavity where the heart resides. On either side you will find the pleura (side) which houses the right and left lungs.

Answer 5

Usually people refer to a septal defect, often a ventricular septal defect, when they speak of a "hole in the heart." They may also mean an atrial septal defect or patent foramen ovale.

Answer 6

Endocardial means within the heart.