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- noun Plural form of
dilatation .
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Examples
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In addition to bleeding within the head, blood vessel problems such as aneurysms (dilatations) and stenoses (narrowings) can also be seen elsewhere in the body, such as kidney vessels and the aorta.
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Salmon patches are benign, small, pink, ill-defined dilatations of blood vessels found in 30 percent to 40 percent of newborns.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Salmon patches are benign, small, pink, ill-defined dilatations of blood vessels found in 30 percent to 40 percent of newborns.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Salmon patches are benign, small, pink, ill-defined dilatations of blood vessels found in 30 percent to 40 percent of newborns.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Salmon patches are benign, small, pink, ill-defined dilatations of blood vessels found in 30 percent to 40 percent of newborns.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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He thought that both the contractions and dilatations of the heart — what we call the ‘systole’ or contraction of the heart, and the
Essays 2007
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The Frenchman, having swallowed the first spoonful, made a full pause, his throat swelled as if an egg had stuck in his gullet, his eyes rolled, and his mouth underwent a series of involuntary contractions and dilatations.
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Of these four processes two are dilatations, one when the lungs attract the air, another when the breast dischargeth itself of it upon the lungs; two are contractions, one when the breast draws into itself the air, the second when it expels this which was insinuated into it.
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It will produce life-like imitations of the dilatations of dyspepsia, the sicknesses of pregnancy, the broken rhythm of the cardiac, the feverishness of the consumptive.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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But in those aneurysms which are _fusiform_ dilatations of the vessel there is but slight chance of such cure, for the blood sweeps evenly through it without staying to deposit clot or laminated fibrine.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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