dilate
verb (used with object)
to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
undilatable
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a word derived from
dilate.
Example Sentences
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It is very remarkable how very soon gangrene may come on, in a case of a small recent femoral hernia, in which the fibrous tissues constricting the neck of the sac are tense and undilatable.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Their motions are quite peculiar; the undilatable jaws, small eyes and curious plated integument also distinguish them from other snakes.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
Sir H. Thompson recommends this to be used in cases where it is not that the stricture is of very small calibre, but that it is undilatable, that prevents the cure.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
