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Definition of Dilatation

1. Noun. The state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions.

2. Noun. The act of expanding an aperture. "The dilation of the pupil of the eye"

Definition of Dilatation

1. n. Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

Definition of Dilatation

1. Noun. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. ¹

2. Noun. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on all sides; the state of being dilated; dilation. ¹

3. Noun. A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dilatation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dilatation

1. The condition, as of an orifice or tubular structure, of being dilated or stretched beyond the normal dimensions. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilatation

dilapidation dilapidations dilapidator dilatabilities dilatability dilatable dilatably dilatancies dilatancy dilatant

dilatants dilatate dilatated dilatates dilatating dilatation (current term) dilatation and curettage dilatational dilatations dilatative

dilatator dilatators dilate dilated dilated cardiomyopathy dilated pore dilatedly dilater dilaters dilates

Literary usage of Dilatation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"When with pneumonia or chronic heart disease there is dilatation of the colon and stomach, the combination is exceedingly grave, and unless relieved may ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Huss,4 in 1842, reported a case in which he made the diagnosis of dilatation of the oesophagus and stenosis of the cardia. At the postmortem he found a ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"Another point was the suggestion that dilatation of the stomach was a cause of moveable kidney ; to this he entirely objected ; and the question of moveable ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1901)
"Practically all of the vertical or subvertical stomachs show dilatation of the pyloric end. As will be shown, this may be regarded as a direct result of the ..."

5. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"Rapid dilatation of the cervix is a distinct traumatism, and along with it run all the ... In a number of cases with a history of preceding dilatation, ..."

6. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1880)
"This movement of dilatation takes place after a .stimulus so slight that Schiff considers it the best test of sensibility in a part. ..."

7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"dilatation of the Stomach.—Sir William Broadbent says that it is not easy to draw a line between mere distension and dilatation of the stomach. ..."

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