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The state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions
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dilatation
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dilatation \Dil`a*ta"tion\, n. [OE. dilatacioun, F. dilatation, L. dilatatio, fr. dilatare. See Dilate , and cf. 2d Dilation .] Prolixity; diffuse discourse. [Obs.] ``What needeth greater dilatation?'' --Chaucer. The act of dilating; expansion; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French dilatation , from Late Latin dilatationem (nominative dilatatio ) "a widening," from past participle stem of Latin dilatare (see dilate ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions [syn: distension , distention ] the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye" [syn: dilation ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 prolixity; diffuse discourse. 2 The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on all sides; the state of being dilated; dilation. 3 A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
Usage examples of dilatation.
Cazin and Rey both produced abortion by forcible dilatation of the anus for fissure, but Gayet used both the fingers and a speculum in a case at five months and the woman went to term.
Squire tells of a case in which the mother died of dilatation of the aorta, and in from twenty to thirty minutes the child was saved.
According to Osler there is a chronic form of dilatation of the colon in which the gut may reach an enormous size.
Chapman mentions a case in which the liver was displaced by dilatation of the sigmoid flexure.
Congenital dilatation of the ureters is occasionally seen in the new-born.
Congenital dilatation of the urethral canal is very rare, and generally accompanied by other malformation.
There is another species of rupture of the heart which is not traumatic, in which the rupture occurs spontaneously, the predisposing cause being fatty degeneration, dilatation, or some other pathologic process in the cardiac substance.
He was chloroformed and placed in the lithotomy position, his buttocks brought to the edge of the bed, and after dilatation of the sphincter, by traction with the fingers and tooth-forceps, the horn was extracted.
She acquired this mania after an attempt at dilatation of the urethra in the relief of an obstinate case of strangury.
Hall relates the case of a woman of sixty, from whose bladder, by dilatation of the urethra, was removed a bundle of hairs two inches long, which, Hall says, without a doubt had grown from the vesical walls.
Adams describes a curious case of congenital dilatation of the arteries and veins in the right lower limb, accompanied by an anastomosis with the interior of the os calcis.
There is a corresponding dilatation and multiplication of the blood-vessels with the connective-tissue hypertrophy.
The dilatation is commonly cylindrical, more rarely saccular, and it is the medium and smaller sized tubes that are generally affected, except where the cause is mechanical.
Where the dilatation is of the saccular variety, it may come up in such quantities and with so much suddenness as to gush from the mouth.
Such local dilatation at this point of the veins is incurable, but there are also hard tumors like scirrhus and malignant tumors, and those of great size.