Meanings
- Malapropistic misconstruction of buccal cavity
The patient is also asked to swallow his own saliva after two weeks of the operation by efficiently closing the buckle cavity.
1975, R. G. Chambers, Cancer of the Head and Neck: Proceedings of an International Symposium, Montreux, Switzerland, April 2–4, 1975, Excerpta Medica, →ISBN, page 177, →ISBN2 more examples
We have experienced a single case of a Rathke’s pouch cyst, which is a rare choristoma derived from a diverticulum of the embryonic buckle cavity (Fig. 11‒14).
2003, Jack Rootman, Diseases of the Orbit: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Wolters Kluwer Health, →ISBN, page 424Immanent sound in the human body is grouped into five types on the basis of its quality of development from the root of the naval to the cerebrum and the buckle cavity of the mouth through the heart and the throat.
2007, Manorma Sharma, Special Education: Music Therapy, Theory and Practice, APH, →ISBN, page 6
Origin
Due to the substitution of the correct buccal (“of or pertaining to the cheek or mouth”) with its homophone and etymological relation buckle (“fastening metal rim”).
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