About The Word Cavernous
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Cavernous
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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.
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