  The effects of a finite system volume on thermodynamic quantities, such as
the pressure, energy density, specific heat, speed of sound, conserved charge
susceptibilities and correlations, in hot and dense strongly interacting matter
are studied within the parity-doublet Chiral Mean Field (CMF) model.
  Such an investigation is motivated by relativistic heavy-ion collisions,
which create a blob of hot QCD matter of a finite volume, consisting of
strongly interacting hadrons and potentially deconfined quarks and gluons.
  The effect of the finite volume of the system is incorporated by introducing
a lower momentum cut-offs in the momentum integrals appearing in the model, the
numerical value of the momentum cut-off being related to the de Broglie
wavelength of the given particle species.
  It is found that some of these quantities show a significant volume
dependence, in particular those sensitive to pion degrees of freedom, and the
crossover transition is generally observed to become smoother in finite volume.
  These findings are relevant for the effective equation of state used in fluid
dynamical simulations of heavy-ion collisions and efforts to extract the freeze
out properties of heavy-ion collisions with susceptibilities involving electric
charge and strangeness.
