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Subdititious :: Subdilated (a.) Partially dilated.

Dilate :: Dilate (v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.

Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.

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..

Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc..

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

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

Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air..

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..

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

Dilatation :: Dilatation (n.) The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.

Angioma :: Angioma (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

Dilater :: Dilater (n.) One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges..

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..

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

Greaten :: Greaten (v. i.) To become large; to dilate.

Pouter :: Pouter (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.

Phyllodium :: Phyllodium (n.) A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias..

Glasseye :: Glasseye (n.) A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.

Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs..

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