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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.…

Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.

tions are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes…

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.

t or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar system together with all the stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point…

siol.), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ.

The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

Relating to the long axis of the body.

arther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm.…

presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse.