(n.) The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.
(n.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(2) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
(3) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(4) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(5) DPI 201-106 (DPI) as a positive inotropic drug might be useful in treating dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
(6) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(7) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(8) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(9) Myogenic constrictions and dilations was observed when IP was increased (greater than 60 cmH2O) and decreased (less than 60 cmH2O), respectively.
(10) Four hundred and twenty-five lesions were dilated in 370 patients.
(11) Most often, constrictor fibres follow the course of the pterygo-palatine nerve, when dilator fibres follow the infraorbital nerve.
(12) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(13) Further management of the congenital cases was based on the experience that children outgrow this disorder; periodic dilatation may augment the natural process.
(14) The average size of stenosis after dilation was 32%.
(15) Computer-aided axial tomography revealed progressive development of atrophy of the left hemisphere and compensatory dilatation of the ventricles.
(16) The distinction between idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and myocarditis is controversial, both clinically and pathologically.
(17) In the remaining 60 patients (35 with atherosclerotic stenosis and 25 with fibromuscular dysplasia), both mean systolic and diastolic pressure fell immediately after percutaneous transluminal dilatation and remained significantly lower for a period of up to five years.
(18) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
(19) Histamine elicited arteriolar dilation which was blocked by metiamide suggesting the presence of H2 receptors.
(20) In 1 patient there was concomitant aneurysmal dilatation of the brachiocephalic trunk.
Ectasis
Definition:
(n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
(2) The X-ray results have been classified according to the following points of view: milk duct ectasies, milk duct cysts, ectasies and cysts, intracanalicular proliferations and the so called "normal" duct system.
(3) Such character is enhanced when estrogens are used, disappearing ductal ectasis, becoming evident a granulation tissue of strange body in phagocytic activity and in contact with the pellet.
(4) These observations can be compared to multiple osteolyses and be grouped together under the name of "intraosseous capillary ectasies".
(5) The normal medical treatment for simple somnipathy is of no success in a prison and the prisoners abuse the normally used medicaments to get into a state of ectasy.
(6) The Authors, on the basis of 9 casual radiographic observations of thoracic aortic ectasy in subjects affected of neoplasms and previously treated with antitumoral drugs, hypothesize a possible correlation between the use of adriamycin and the appearance of the aortic lesion.
(7) A patient operated upon for acalculous cholecystitis was later found to have Caroli's disease, congenital ectasis of intrahepatic bile ducts.
(8) Besides malformation of the glandular duct like stenosis and ectasis, functional factors like the character of salivary secretion are suspected as being responsible for the disease.
(9) Histologic examination demonstrated typical cystic ectasies of all glandular ducts in the esophagus; they appeared on radiologic examination and are visible at endoscopy as little yellowish cystic lesions.
(10) Histologically, cryonecrosis showed capillary ectasis with hyperemia.
(11) Main finding is a heavy granulocytic infiltration of the subsynovial stratum, similar to that seen in non-specific purulent inflammation, accompanied by marked ectasis and hyperaemia of the synovial vessels.
(12) 1) What form does AAA take: an atheromatous, spindle-shaped and partially thrombotic ectasis.
(13) Menometrorrhagia and hypermenorrhoea are often present in patients who also suffer from a state of insufficiency of the utero-adnexal venous system interpretable as a clinical entity of system pathology and accompanied by pictures of acquired venous ectasis.
(14) In the lumen, stenosis, obstruction, ectasis, and deformation due to pressure were recognized, in addition to excessive secretion and pigmentation as morphologic abnormalities or abnormal findings at bifurcation.
(15) In contrast to other studies which included only patients with blunting and ectasis even cases without blunting of the fornices have a clinical symptomatology.
(16) Overt shrinkage of bronchial dimension was demonstrated in chronic obstructive bronchiolitis; in both diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) and broncho-bronchiolitis obliterans (BBO), narrowing of the peripheral airways combined with ectasis of the proximal bronchi proved to be a common feature.
(17) Different methods suitable for management of these vascular ectasies are briefly reported.
(18) Report on 2 patients, with a mediastinal enlargement at the right tracheobronchial angle revealing an ectasis of the orifice of vena-azygos.
(19) They may be functional (Graham-Steel-murmurs, for instance with idiopathic pulmonary ectasis or pulmonary hypertension), but are more and more the symptom of postoperative pulmonary insufficiency.
(20) A seven-year-old boy, who complained of painless swelling mass over the right neck on exertion, was diagnosed as right internal jugular vein ectasis by the duplex Doppler ultrasound.