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Definition of Dilatations
1. dilatation [n] - See also: dilatation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilatations
Literary usage of Dilatations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1826)
"We require the dilatations of water, in order to reduce the specific gravities
observed in that liquid to comparable terms. We require those of alcohol to ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(c) Dilatations of the Intestine Dilatations of the intestine may be diffuse or
... Circumscribed dilatations or diverticula may occur in any portion of the ..."
3. Medical Diagnosis: Special Diagnosis of Internal Medicine by Wilhelm Olivier von Leube, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1904)
"As to the former, primary, total dilatations, they (only a very small number of
cases have as yet been observed) manifested themselves by severe dysphagia, ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"view bronchiectasis consists of dilatations of the bronchial tubes of varying
degrees and distribution. The main incidence of the disease tends towards the ..."
5. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"Varicose dilatations of the ... dilatations and haemorrhages occurring in the
rectum. The escape of blood from the haemorrhoidal veins may be caused : 1. ..."
6. The Heart and the Aorta: Studies in Clinical Radiology by Henri Vaquez, Emile Bordet (1920)
"B. DIFFERENTIA!, DIAGNOSIS OF ANEURISM OF THE AORTA FROM Dilatations OF OTHER
... There have also been described dilatations of the superior vena cava which ..."
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