CAVERNOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cavernous mean? 

• CAVERNOUS (adjective)
  The adjective CAVERNOUS has 2 senses:

1. being or suggesting a cavern

2. filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood

  Familiarity information: CAVERNOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAVERNOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or suggesting a cavern

Context example:

vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone

Similar:

hollow (not solid; having a space or gap or cavity)

Derivation:

cavern (a large cave or a large chamber in a cave)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood

Synonyms:

cavernous; erectile

Context example:

the penis is an erectile organ

Similar:

expansive (able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion)

Domain category:

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

 Context examples 

A cavernous hemangioma characterized by the presence of hylanized vascular channels and is often associated with the presence of calcifications, fibrosis, and hemorrhage.

(Giant Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A capillary or cavernous hemangioma that arises from the esophagus.

(Esophageal Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A cavernous hemangioma arising from the colon.

(Colon Cavernous Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Defects in the CCM1 gene are responsible for the development of cerebral cavernous malformations, a relatively rare disease causing vascular malformations that may involve any part of the central nervous system.

(Cerebral Cavernous Malformations 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign vascular neoplasm characterized by the formation of capillary-sized or cavernous vascular channels.

(Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A cavernous angiomatosis associated with the destruction of platelets, resulting in thrombocytopenia.

(Hemangiomatosis with Thrombocytopenia, NCI Thesaurus)

A cavernous hemangioma arising from the orbit.

(Orbit Cavernous Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A hemangioma with cavernous vascular spaces arising from the liver.

(Liver Cavernous Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the gene, which encode for products that terminate prematurely, are a factor in familial cerebral cavernous malformations.

(KRIT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A cavernous hemangioma arising from the brain and meninges.

(Intracranial Cavernous Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)