CAVERNOUS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

2.
a.

Filled with small cavities or cells.

3.
a.

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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