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Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle that makes the muscle walls become stretched and thin.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

The night moves from a Rihanna song to Delilah, with Alice Cooper, Bruno Mars and Dilated Peoples thrown in.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2018

Dilated cardiomyopathy develops when the heart’s ventricles enlarge and weaken, a process that usually starts in the left ventricle.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

Dilated cardiomyopathy is most commonly diagnosed between ages 20 and 60, and is more common in African Americans than whites, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2016

O small frail being, wilt thou stand At God's right hand, Lifting up those sleeping eyes Dilated by great destinies, To an endless waking? thrones and seraphim.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett