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Dilatator :: Dilatator (n.) A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population..

Distensible :: Distensible (a.) Capable of being distended or dilated.

Ampulliform :: Ampulliform (a.) Flask-shaped; dilated.

Erectile :: Erectile (a.) Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

Dilation :: Dilation (n.) The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation..

Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..

Dilate :: Dilate (a.) Extensive; expanded.

Dilative :: Dilative (a.) Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive..

Dilatable :: Dilatable (a.) Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

Sinus :: Sinus (n.) A dilated vessel or canal.

Dilated :: Dilated (a.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Gynobase :: Gynobase (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary..

Infundibulum :: Infundibulum (n.) A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes..

Dilatedly :: Dilatedly (adv.) In a dilated manner.

Tunicata :: Tunicata (n. pl.) A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and se

Dilated :: Dilated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilat.

Fill :: Fill (a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails..

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