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Definition of Dilating
1. dilate [v] - See also: dilate
Medical Definition of Dilating
1. The widening and opening of the cervix caused by uterine contractions. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilating
Literary usage of Dilating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1874)
"On this account, the theory of dilating vaso-motor nerves has, as yet, but an
insufficient basis. The experiment which I related on p. ..."
2. The Chicago Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1874)
"On this account, the theory of dilating vaso-motor nerve« has, as yet, but an
insufficient basis. The experiment which I related on p. 4! ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"From thence the dilating influence may be further traced up through the bulb to
a centre, which appears to be placed in the floor of the front part of the ..."
4. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Along the spinal cord the dilating influence may be further traced up through
the bulb to a centre, which appears to be placed in the floor of the front ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Whatever be the means employed for dilating the nasal duct—catgut or ...
After which some astringent lotion is to be thrown in, or the dilating body may be ..."
6. Treatise on Physics by Andrew Gray (1901)
"Ols. Simple Normal Traction reduced to Uniform dilating Stress and Two Systems
of Shearing Stress.—From this result it is clear that a simple normal ..."
7. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1861)
"... which combined the uses of the staff and a dilator of the prostate,—a
dilating-staff. In the subjoined woodcut it is given on a greatly diminished scale ..."
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