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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 resection specimen, irregular zones of fibrosis and a dilatation of the glandular excretory duct system were grossly evident.
These are inhibitory reflexes, excited by deglutition, by gastric distension, and by intestinal dilatation.
A pulsating aorta may mean neurasthenia, thinness, anemia, exophthalmic goitre, aortic insufficiency, aneurism, dilatation, or tumor.
Interventional paediatric cardiology mainly involves dilatation of stenotic vessels or valves and occlusion of abnormal communications.
The researchers investigated the dilatation changes in the brachial artery using high resolution magnetic resonance imaging.
A Bartholin's gland may become enlarged from cystic dilatation, abscess, or adenocarcinoma.

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