This phenomenon, which we call dilatation of the womb, is brought about by involuntary contractions of the muscle fibers in its wall, every point of which they draw upward. From Wordnik.com. [The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy] Reference
In this instance great dilatation of the vessels had occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
This condition is caused by dilatation of the vessels following exposure to cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
Enlarged veins of the scrotum represent dilatation of the veins of the epididymis. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
The thoracic apparatus causes no vacuum by the acts of either contraction or dilatation. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Possibly some of the cases would be more properly classed under dilatation or excavation. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Probably, also, a certain amount of atrophy and dilatation of the stomach wall is produced. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
Severing the same part causes paralysis of the vaso-motor nerves and dilatation of the blood-vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The bloodvessels are elastic, and capable of contraction and dilatation, a matter regulated by the brain. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
And surely you noted the warm flush of his cheek, the dilatation of his eye, and its phosphorescent glow?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
I called a physician for poor Anderson, and the diagnosis was dilatation of the heart from over-exercise. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
In the medulla also are centers for coughing, vomiting, swallowing, and the dilatation of the pupil of the eye. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Echinoderms; on the contrary, their envelope is tough and leathery, capable of great contraction and dilatation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
This regular dilatation and rigidity of the elastic artery answering to the beats of the heart, is known as the pulse. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The pulse was preternaturally slow -- great stupor -- dilatation of the pupils, and diastasis of the bones of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks on the Subject of Lactation] Reference
Galvanism applied to a spinal nerve, determines, it has been said, dilatation of blood-vessels, and increased secretion in glands. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Localized blood-filled dilatation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel's wall. anthropotomist (anthropotomy). From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Mechanical irritation of other parts of the spinal cord, on the other hand, causes vaso-motor paralysis and dilatation of blood-vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Where the dilatation is of the saccular variety, it may come up in such quantities and with so much suddenness as to gush from the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
They believed that dilatation of the arteries drives onward the pneuma, and contraction of the arteries drives it in a contrary direction. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
The greater portion of the lower part of the rectum, which part is about three inches long, is usually involved in the dilatation or ballooning. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Martins proposes to apply the word 'cladodium' to such expansions, just as the term phyllodium is applied to the similar dilatation of the leaf-stalks. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Syme are also advocates for limited incisions, extending no farther than a partial division of the prostate, the rest being effected by dilatation. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
This case which was owing to a congenital malformation of the urethra, exhibits a dilatation of the canal such as might be produced behind a stricture wherever situated. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Whence it is manifest that the blood enters the ventricles, not by any attraction or dilatation of the heart, but by being thrown into them by the pulses of the auricles. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Like most similar specimens, this one bears out the notion that what is called the calyx-tube in roses is really an expansion and dilatation of the top of the flower-stalk. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Some, more bold, intrust the bougie performance to the patient in order that a daily dilatation and stimulation may be kept up until "recovery from the disease is effected.". From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
In parts structurally weak at birth the bloodvessels, because of thin and weak walls, are larger than in normal parts, and because of dilatation the blood circulates slower. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
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