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dilatation
[ dil-uh-tey-shuhn, dahy-luh- ]
noun
- a dilated formation or part.
- Pathology. an abnormal enlargement of an aperture or a canal of the body.
- Surgery.
- an enlargement made in a body aperture or canal for surgical or medical treatment.
- a restoration to normal patency of an abnormally small body opening or passageway, as of the anus or esophagus.
- Mechanics. the increase in volume per unit volume of a homogeneous substance.
Other Words From
- dila·tation·al adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of dilatation1
Example Sentences
Patients in need of therapeutic dilatation of this sort often need a redo every year or two as scarring reaccumulates.
It is delayed in most organic diseases of the stomach, especially in dilatation and carcinoma, but not in neuroses.
After subcutaneous or local application, a dilatation neutralised by physostigmine in moderate doses.
Severing the same part causes paralysis of the vaso-motor nerves and dilatation of the blood-vessels.
The caloric that penetrates a living body produces dilatation there; that is to say, universal movement.
The first labor is generally more tedious than the succeeding ones, owing to the slower dilatation of the parts.
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