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Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa. -- n.

Pertaining to the Carthusian.

Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

Of or pertaining to cartography.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.

Of or pertaining to a caryatid.

Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.

OF or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. Caseous degeneration, a morbid process, in scrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.

Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton.

Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.

Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.

Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

Designating, pertaining to, or characterized by, that form of pulse tracing, or sphygmogram, in which the descending portion of the curve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light. Hutton.

Of or pertaining to Catalonia. -- n.

Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.

Of or pertaining to a catapult.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.