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What does dilatation mean?

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Noun
  1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
  2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on all sides; the state of being dilated
  3. A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
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In the varicose pattern, the extent of bronchial dilatation is greater, and constrictions and sacculations are present.
A pulsating aorta may mean neurasthenia, thinness, anemia, exophthalmic goitre, aortic insufficiency, aneurism, dilatation, or tumor.
Between 14 and 19 weeks of pregnancy, a process known as surgical dilatation and evacuation may be used.
Ten of 12 patients with predominantly extrinsic compression of the central airways underwent dilatation using a high-pressure balloon catheter.
Call it what you will, dilatation and evacuation, or partial-birth abortion, it's still a gruesome procedure.
In the resection specimen, irregular zones of fibrosis and a dilatation of the glandular excretory duct system were grossly evident.

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