dilatation
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.
Origin of dilatation
1- Also dilation.
Other words from dilatation
- dil·a·ta·tion·al, adjective
Words Nearby dilatation
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How to use dilatation in a sentence
Patients in need of therapeutic dilatation of this sort often need a redo every year or two as scarring reaccumulates.
Sounding Takes Off, but Injuries (Fork in the Penis!) Are Inevitable | Kent Sepkowitz | August 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is delayed in most organic diseases of the stomach, especially in dilatation and carcinoma, but not in neuroses.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddAfter subcutaneous or local application, a dilatation neutralised by physostigmine in moderate doses.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection | Alexander Wynter BlythSevering the same part causes paralysis of the vaso-motor nerves and dilatation of the blood-vessels.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender BrackettThe caloric that penetrates a living body produces dilatation there; that is to say, universal movement.
Mysterious Psychic Forces | Camille Flammarion
The first labor is generally more tedious than the succeeding ones, owing to the slower dilatation of the parts.
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