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excerpt from "Healing a Wounded Heart: Daniel Hale Williams" by William Orem
He found and repaired a torn blood vessel. He stitched up the pericardium, a fluid-filled bag that surrounds the heart. He carefully cleaned the wound and the chest cavity, to make sure that no infection set in.
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It could be inferred that the word cavity in the paragraph means "rotten part."
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