What is "dilates"

Usage examples of "dilates".

It dilates the bronchi so that more oxygen can be sucked into the lungs.

And when the door dilates, she screams her bitter rage and fires her jetpak.

Heart patients could have problems, even though cannabis generally relieves stress, dilates the arteries, and in general lowers the diastolic pressure.

Marijuana smoke effectively dilates the airways of the lungs, the bronchi, opening them to allow more oxygen into the lungs.

The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.

He admitted, -- it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little, -- he admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing more than a conscience bathed in a mist.

The same symptom of staring eyes was present because the drug dilates the pupils.

The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.

The sympathetic division speeds up the heart and dilates the blood vessels to the muscles and the heart so that muscle can expend energy at a greater rate.