Definition of dilated

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

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Dilation :: Dilation (n.) The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation..
Angioma :: Angioma (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.
Erectile :: Erectile (a.) Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.
Sinus :: Sinus (n.) A dilated vessel or canal.
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..
Shieldtail :: Shieldtail (n.) Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated..
Dilated :: Dilated (a.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
Ampulla :: Ampulla (n.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear..
Distensible :: Distensible (a.) Capable of being distended or dilated.
Glasseye :: Glasseye (n.) A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.
Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..
Expand :: Expand (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy..
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..
Artichoke :: Artichoke (n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food..
Ampulliform :: Ampulliform (a.) Flask-shaped; dilated.
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
Puff :: Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
Dilated :: Dilated (a.) Expanded; enlarged.
Gynobase :: Gynobase (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary..
Subdititious :: Subdilated (a.) Partially dilated.
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