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Cavernous

Cavernous Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Cavernous? [adj] (physiology) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ" [adj] being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Cavernous: erectile \| expansive \| hollow Related Terms \| Find terms related to Cavernous: abysmal \| abyssal \| boatlike \| boat-shaped \| bottomless \| bowllike \| bowl-shaped \| cavelike \| commodious \| concave \| concaved \| craterlike \| cupped \| cup-shaped \| cymbiform \| deep as hell \| dished \| dishing \| dishlike \| dish-shaped \| fathomless \| funnel-breasted \| funnel-chested \| funnel-shaped \| gaping \| hollow \| hollowed \| incurved \| incurving \| incurvous \| infundibular \| infundibuliform \| navicular \| naviform \| plumbless \| plunging \| retiring \| retreating \| reverberant \| saucer-shaped \| scaphoid \| scyphate \| sepulchral \| soundless \| spoonlike \| sunk \| sunken \| unfathomable \| unfathomed \| unsounded \| vast \| without bottom \| yawning See Also \| Cavernous In Webster's Dictionary \Cav"ern*ous\, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.] 1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. 2. Filled with small cavities or cells. 3. Having a sound caused by a cavity. {Cavernous body}, a body of erectile tissue with large interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. {Cavernous respiration}, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.

Cavernous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cavernous?

[adj] (physiology) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ"
[adj] being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cavernous: erectile | expansive | hollow

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Cavernous In Webster's Dictionary

\Cav"ern*ous\, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.]
1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity;
   hollow.

2. Filled with small cavities or cells.

3. Having a sound caused by a cavity.

{Cavernous body}, a body of erectile tissue with large
   interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the
   penis or clitoris.

{Cavernous respiration}, a peculiar respiratory sound andible
   on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with
   morbid cavities in the lungs.

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