About The Word Cavernous

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Cavernous

Cavernous Meaning & Definition
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

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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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