Read the passage. 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.

It could be inferred that the word cavity in the paragraph means "rotten part."

Select the word and phrase from the drop-down menus to correctly complete the sentence.

The inferred meaning is
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Choose..."make sure that no infection set in"
"a fluid-filled bag that surrounds the heart"
"cleaned the wound and the chest"
"repaired a torn blood vessel"

from the paragraph.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive