Dilatation

Dilatation of the stomach due to food intake can trigger the "gastro-colic" reflex -- this means that a full stomach will send signals to your colon to start contracting, creating the urge to defecate.

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Dilatation occurs during the first stage of labour.

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Dilatation and tortuosity of the anterior ciliary veins are due apparently to excessive flow of blood through them on account of the abnormally small amount carried off by the venae vorticosae.

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 Various

Dilatation of the pupil occurs, whether the poison be taken internally or applied locally to the eye.

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It says: "Dilatation leads to dropsy, shortness of breath and blueness of the face."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 Various

Dilatation of the cutaneous vascular areas leads to a larger flow of blood through the skin, and so tends to cool the body, and _vice versa_.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

Dilatation of a stricture may be necessary, and may be accomplished by the forms of bronchial dilators shown in Fig. 25.

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

Dilatation of the colon frequently occurs as a transient affection, and by its action in pushing up the diaphragm may so seriously interfere with the action of the heart and lungs as to occasionally cause heart-failure.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Dilatation of the colon frequently occurs as a transient affection, and by its action in pushing up the diaphragm may so seriously interfere with the action of the heart and lungs as to occasionally cause heart-failure.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Dilatation is recommended by a number of surgeons, but, I must admit, in my hands it has always proved a failure; it may be, that if the subsequent history of the cases reported as so operated upon had been carefully traced, the reports would not have been so good.

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886