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What is the adjective for dilatation?

What's the adjective for dilatation? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs dilate and dilatate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dilatant
dilatational
  1. Involving dilatation (or compression).
  2. Examples:
    1. “All tracheotomies were operative tracheotomies, and no percutaneous dilatational tracheostomies were performed.”
dilational
  1. Involving dilation (or compression)
  2. Examples:
    1. “Laryngotracheal injury after percutaneous dilational tracheostomy in cadaver specimens.”
dilative
  1. That dilates, or causes dilation
  2. Examples:
    1. “Moreover, crazing is a dilative process and involves localized plastic deformation.”
      “These cases can often be confused with chronic dilative cardiomyopathy observed in other large breeds of dogs.”
dilatative
  1. Of, pertaining to, or causing dilatation
dilatable
  1. That can be dilated
  2. Examples:
    1. “The invention relates to a dilatable balloon implant, which is configured with a limited permeability to liquid.”
      “Any remaining vein narrowing can be opened further with dilatable balloons and stents.”
      “The prostatic urethra is about 3cm long and is the widest and most dilatable part of the male urethra.”
dilatate
  1. (rare) Dilated.
dilated
dilating
dilatated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dilatate
dilatating
  1. present participle of dilatate
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