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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cav·ern·ous a.
 1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
 2. Filled with small cavities or cells.
 3. 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.