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  • ANTIHYPERTENSION Dilating coronary artery; increasing blood flow

    Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010

  • Dilating a blood vessel can produce a feeling of warmth and may be a cause of hot flashes and night sweats.

    Understanding “Perimenopause” 2008

  • Dilating and dilating since the sun went down last night, it has gradually swelled until it fills every void in the place.

    Bleak House 2007

  • Dilating bloodvessels, effusion of water from thinning walls, the between-vessels starving pressure, increasing general debility of all the structures involved -- this is the gradual evolution of catarrh and of all other chronic diseases.

    The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

  • Dilating, on earth's verge the sunken meteor gleams.

    The Revolt of Islam 1901

  • Dilating his eyes and nostrils with a look of superlative wisdom, he continued:

    The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice 1859

  • Dilating and dilating since the sun went down last night, it has gradually swelled until it fills every void in the place.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Dilating and dilating since the sun went down last night, it has gradually swelled until it fills every void in the place.

    Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841

  • Dilating for a moment, my heart soon sunk within me.

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • Dilating for a moment, my heart soon sunk within me.

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 05 Eug��ne Sue 1830

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