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As a result, the surgeon decided to dilate the narrowed blood vessel using balloon inflation.
For example, their work gives him the opportunity to dilate on the weaknesses of the Marxist labour theory of value.
Next, the level of serotonin plummets causing the blood vessels to dilate and creating blinding, throbbing headaches.
Injection of Salvia miltiorrhizae could dilate the blood vessels and improve microcirculation.
Before ocular surgery, phenylephrine is used with atropine to dilate the pupil.
The tests will dilate the pupils and make it impossible to drive or do close work for several hours afterwards.
This causes inflammation and fluid to gather under the skin, causing wheals and the blood vessels to dilate.
I don't have the space here to, er, dilate on the issue but in my view real women are, alas, a dying breed.
Your eye doctor usually uses special eyedrops to dilate your pupils, opening them wider so he or she can see the back part of your eye.
This process, which is analogous to hydraulic fracturing, causes the rock mass to dilate.
The hawthorn plant contains pharmacologically active flavonoids that inhibit vasoconstriction and actively dilate blood vessels.
This causes muscles to relax and allows bronchial tubes to dilate, aiding the flow of air to the lungs.
The surgeon uses the urethral dilators and lubricating jelly to dilate the urethra to accommodate the desired sheath size.
These potent chemicals dilate blood vessels and constrict bronchial air passages.
General anesthesia causes peripheral vessels to dilate by depressing the sympathetic nervous system.
And consuming too much alcohol also can dilate the blood vessels in the skin, giving it a reddish hue.
The doctors were using the drug to dilate the blood vessels supplying the babies' lungs, in the hope of reducing pulmonary hypertension.
These, it is supposed, dilate as a reflex reaction to the initial constriction, and the pressure thus produced triggers pain.
These drugs can slow the force of contraction of the heart and dilate the coronary arteries, thus reducing the demand for oxygen and increasing supply to the heart.
It is designed to fit inside the nostril and dilate the nasal valves by means of its elasticity and thus decrease nasal resistance and improve air flow.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In that September morning his soul seemed to dilate with every breath he drew.
For is it not indicative of peristalsis that always when the upper parts of the gullet contract the lower parts dilate?
Under the condition it was impossible to dilate the stricture by endotracheal methods.
It was all very well to dilate upon the sugar crop of the island, its trade, its fertility, its harborage.
It would ill become us to dilate at length upon the extremes into which their arrogance and luxuriousness led them.
On the wealth and vraisemblance and variety of character it were superfluous to dilate.
That, however, was a subject on which Margaret had promised to dilate no more.
The advantages of prolificacy are so apparent that it is unnecessary to dilate upon them.
She was pale and fragile, yet she seemed to expand and to dilate with force and energy.
In this way they dilate the prepuce and break up the adhesions.
She saw his nostrils dilate and his fists clench and unclench.
The branchial cavity can dilate and contract itself alternately.
If we dilate in beholding the Greek energy, the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
It would be needless to dilate upon the value of such a work.
Little need to dilate on the situation as it appeared to Mrs Iver!
Yet how will it dilate on the Odyssean smell of hemp and tar!
He began to dilate upon the virtues of another piece of tapestry.
On this point it will not be expected that we should dilate at length.
On the subject of his Petinka, as he called him, the poor old man could never sufficiently rhapsodise and dilate.
It is equally unnecessary to dilate on the appointment of senators by the State legislatures.
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