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单词 dilatation
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dilatationn.

/dʌɪləˈteɪʃən/
Etymology: < Old French dilatacion, -ation (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) = Italian dilatazione , Spanish dilatacion , < Latin dīlātātiōn-em , noun of action < dīlātāre to dilate v.2
1.
a. The action or process of dilating; the condition of being dilated; widening out, expansion, enlargement. (Chiefly in Physics and Physiology.)
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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.
figurative.1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 203 Pleasure..is produced with a kind of dilatation and exaltation of the soul.1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. i. 31 We feel a gradual dilatation or expansion of mind.1877 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables iv. xlix. 33 There is a dilatation of thought peculiar to the vicinity of a tomb.
b. concrete. A dilated form, formation, or portion of any structure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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