Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cavernous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cavernous \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cavernous
adj 1: being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers
hollowed out of limestone"
2: (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 [syn: {erectile}]
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