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[syn: erectile, cavernous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cavernous \Cav"ern*ous\, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.]
1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity;
hollow.
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2. Filled with small cavities or cells.
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3. Having a sound caused by a cavity.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cavernous
adj 1: being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers
hollowed out of limestone"
2: 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, cavernous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "cavernous":
abysmal, abyssal, boat-shaped, boatlike, bottomless, bowl-shaped,
bowllike, cavelike, commodious, concave, concaved, craterlike,
cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, deep as hell, dish-shaped, dished,
dishing, dishlike, fathomless, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested,
funnel-shaped, gaping, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving,
incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, navicular, naviform,
plumbless, plunging, retiring, retreating, reverberant,
saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, sepulchral, soundless,
spoonlike, sunk, sunken, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, vast,
without bottom, yawning