Sentence examples for dilated from inspiring English sources
The word "dilated" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word "dilated" when talking about the enlargement of a bodily organ, or the enlargement of something due to emotion or excitement. For example: "She felt her heart dilate with joy when she saw the flowers he had sent."
The doctor's face radiated enthusiasm; his eyes glittered, his purple cheeks were aglow, the veins in his temples stood out strongly, and he breathed heavily through dilated nostrils.
Bilateral dilated pupils that do not contract when a light is placed on one of them indicate death or severe damage to the nervous system.
(In bronchiectasis one or more bronchi or bronchioles are chronically dilated and inflamed, with copious discharge of mucus mixed with pus).
Oxygen transfer in the lungs is severely impaired, and the heart may be acutely dilated.
About the time that the cervix becomes fully dilated, the amnion breaks, and the force of the involuntary uterine contractions may be augmented by voluntary bearing-down efforts of the mother.
Increased venous pressure, slowing of the rate of venous flow, and partial stasis of the blood in the veins are major factors in causing the swelling of the legs and the varicose (abnormally dilated) veins of the lower legs that are commonly present near the end of pregnancy.
Dr McMahon also established that stored blood does indeed lose its ability to dilate blood vessels.Dr Stamler is in little doubt about the significance of these findings.
By increasing the heartbeat and dilating blood vessels, it can lower blood pressure.
These include nitric oxide, which helps to dilate blood vessels and increase blood flow, reducing the risk of clot formation.
When a red blood cell reaches any tissue in need of oxygen it releases nitric oxide in order to dilate the capillaries.
I answered him that one can describe a car as riding smoothly, without dilating on the geometry of its hyperdihedral MacPherson struts.
