Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being dilatable, or of admitting expansion, either by inherent elastic force or by the action of a force exerted from without: opposed to contraclibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to
contractibility .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
dilatable
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When an ossification of the aorta, or of its valves, exists, there will be a resistance to the passage of the blood from the left ventricle, either by a loss of dilatability in the artery, or a contraction of the orifice by the ossified parts.
Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart John Collins Warren 1817
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