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Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid (Chem.), an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. On common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called…

Of or pertaining to carcinology.

Of or pertaining to carcinoma.

Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings.

Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3.

Of or pertaining to the body or is appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

Of or pertaining to flesh; specif. (Physiol. Chem.),

Of a pertaining to flesh; fleshy. A distinct carnose muscle. Ray.

Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.

Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.

Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist. -- n.

Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south.

Of or pertaining to carpology.

Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. A prey for carrion kites. Shak. Carrion beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a…

Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates (Geom), distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. -- Cartesian devil, a sma…