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What does expansile mean?

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Adjective
  1. expansionary, relating to expansion
  2. expandable, which can be expanded
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While the mucosa of the gallbladder appeared unremarkable, an expansile neoplasm had infiltrated the full thickness of the wall.
Airway compression is common in children with expansile pneumonia caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The resected mass was greatly expansile, but there was no evidence of local invasion or distant metastasis.
The authors propose that the muscles that close off each end of the pufferfish's expansile stomach are the most energetically demanding, and tire after several inflation events.
Through the action of a number of muscles, the rib cage, which is semirigid but expansile, increases its size.
Microscopically, the tumor nodules were unencapsulated and had a well-defined expansile margin that compressed the adjacent hepatic parenchyma.

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