单词 | dilatation |
释义 | dilatationn. 1. a. The action or process of dilating; the condition of being dilated; widening out, expansion, enlargement. (Chiefly in Physics and Physiology.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] waxingc1055 increasec1374 dilatationc1400 larging?a1425 magnification?a1425 bredingc1440 ampliation1509 enlarginga1513 dilating1532 ampliating1541 amplification1546 amplifying1553 propagation1563 enlargement1564 widening1569 growth1587 dilation1598 expatiation1612 diduction1634 expansion1635 extendinga1649 dispansion1658 elargement1680 expatiating1708 explicating1730 aggrandizement1772 extension1839 expanse1860 aggrandization1929 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 66 And if þat þe blood go out of arterie þou schalt knowe it bi construccion and dilatacion of þe same arterie. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 264 By the blowing of the winde, or dilatation of the ayre. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall i. 28 It appears not that any compression of the Air preceded its spontaneous Dilatation or Expansion of it self. 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion ix. 108 The dilatation of metals..by Heat. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 389 There may be a Dropsy by a Dilatation of the serous Vessels. 1823 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 9) I. iii. 82 The expansion or dilatation of bodies..is an almost universal effect of an increase of temperature. 1849 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (ed. 8) xvii. 156 Alternate condensations and dilatations of the strata. 1871 W. A. Hammond Treat. Dis. Nerv. Syst. 46 The emotions of shame, of anger, and others, cause the face to become red from dilatation of the blood-vessels. b. concrete. A dilated form, formation, or portion of any structure. ΚΠ 1833 C. Thirlwall in Philol. Museum 2 163 Memnon is only a dilatation of Menon. 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 161 A similar contractile dilatation exists at the end of the foot. 1857 M. J. Berkeley Introd. Cryptogamic Bot. §73 The only semblance of a root is a little dilatation of the base. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. i. 43 This dilatation divides the digestive canal into three parts. c. dilatation and curettage n. (also dilatation and curetting) Gynaecology an operation involving dilatation of the cervix and curettage of the uterus, carried out for diagnostic purposes, to terminate a pregnancy, or to arrest irregular menstrual bleeding. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on sex organs > operations on female sex organs female circumcision1697 nymphotomy1704 hysterotomy1707 ovariotomy1844 clitoridectomy1866 hysterectomy1872 oophorectomy1872 ovariectomy1873 clitorectomy1880 genital mutilation1884 myomotomy1884 myomectomy1886 salpingectomy1888 panhysterectomy1890 salpingo-oöphorectomy1890 trachelotomy1890 dilatation and curettage1906 vulvectomy1916 tubectomy1925 hymenectomy1931 salpingolysis1937 labiaplasty1964 scrape1968 female genital cutting1996 1906 D. B. Hart in Allbutt et al. Syst. Gynaecol. (ed. 2) 70 Dilatation and curetting. This is a very important procedure where malignant disease of the mucous membrane of the body is suspected. 1920 H. S. Crossen Operative Gynecol. (ed. 2) v. 268 (caption) The safe method of securing the necessary fixation of the cervix, for Dilatation and Curettage. 1964 Jrnl. Obstetrics & Gynaecol. 71 668/2 Dilatation and curettage has a major place in the diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium of the obstetrician and gynaecologist. 2. The spreading abroad, extension, expansion (of immaterial or abstract things). archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > specifically of immaterial things dilatation1448 propagation1531 dilating1532 enlargement1607 dilationa1631 radiationa1631 dispreadinga1652 factorship1697 rayonnement1910 haemorrhaging1967 1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 353 Dilatacion, and stablisshement of christen feith. 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 174 For preseruation and dilatation of peace and iustice. 1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. 65 Before I..come to declare the universal dilatation of [the rebellion] throughout the whole kingdom. 1839 N. Wiseman Catholic & Anglican Church in Ess. (1853) II. 232 To the end of the world, room will be left for the dilatation of religion. 3. The action or practice of dilating upon a subject in speech or writing; amplification, enlargement, diffuse treatment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > amplification dilatationc1386 dilating1532 amplification1553 dilate1595 dilation1623 periphrasis1657 magnificationa1834 enlarging1843 c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 134 What needeth gretter dilatacioun? c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iv. 2278 But this dilatacyon..longeth not to this lyf present. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Gg4v Holy in the description or dilatation of his workes. View more context for this quotation 1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 4 I resolue against all such dilatations in this Epitome. 1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 303 Little more than a dilatation of the praise given it by Pope. 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 285 I have spoken of Spenser's fondness for dilatation as respects thoughts and images. Derivatives dilaˈtational adj. of or pertaining to a dilatation. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] dilative1634 dilatative1728 expansile1736 expansive1782 dilatational1884 expansional1925 expansionary1936 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 539 The first dilatational bands of the external cortex. 1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. i. 11 The dilatational changes resulting from variation of temperature in a crystal. Draft additions January 2005 dilatation and extraction n. Surgery = dilation and extraction n. at dilation n.2 Additions. ΚΠ 1979 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 135 235 We studied 250 midtrimester abortions by dilatation and extraction (D and E) under general anesthesia and compared them with abortions by the intra-amniotic injection of prostaglandin (amnio). 2003 Boston Globe (Nexis) 28 Oct. c3 The new Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, approved by Congress earlier in the month, is aimed at the less-common ‘partial-birth’ abortion, medically known as an ‘intact D & E’ or a ‘dilatation and extraction’, or D & X. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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