dilate
verb (used with object)
to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
dilatable
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a word derived from
dilate.
Example Sentences
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The bladder is a dilatable reservoir for the retention of the urine until the discomfort of its presence causes its voluntary discharge.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
It is said that three pounds’ weight of ‘eider down’ can be compressed to the size of a man’s fist, and yet is afterwards so dilatable as to fill a quilt of five feet square.
From The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by William Harvey
Many birds have the œsophagus or the skin of the neck more or less dilatable, but in no known bird is it so dilatable as in the Pouter pigeon.
From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace
A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Very true; but fortunately the sheath of the prostate, unlike the rind of the chestnut, is very freely dilatable, and will allow the passage of a very considerable stone.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
