dilatation

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From Old French dilatation, from Late Latin dīlātātio, early 15th c.

KIDNEYS: Sections show no significant abnormalities aside from dilatation and engorgement of blood vessels of all calibers. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
"So it is!" reiterated R----, expelling a tremendous and satisfactory cloud of smoke that took the shape of a balloon, and ascending towards the cottage beams, puzzled me, by its great dilatation, to think, how such a gigantic volume of sooty exhalation, as Dr. Johnson would say, could be compressed into a small compass, like R----'s mouth. — A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden: 2nd edition, William A. Ross
*Mahomet And he answered: “Rather than I lose Constance, I will be christen’d doubteless I must be hers, I may none other choose, I pray you hold your arguments in peace,<4> Save my life, and be not reckeless To gette her that hath my life in cure,* *keeping For in this woe I may not long endure.” What needeth greater dilatation? — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer

distension, distention

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