Dilate Sentence Examples

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  • If the pupils dilate, the cat may be getting ready to attack.

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  • The Veda, it is true, does not usually dilate much on the worst of these adventures.

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  • We guess it took about 45 mins to dilate from 2cm to full dilation.

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  • Did your eyes dilate?

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  • Pupils will dilate making vision even more unclear.

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  • This causes the pupil to dilate to let more light in.

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  • The drug atropine inhibits the parasympathetic nerve, causing the pupil to dilate.

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  • In this paper we hypothesized that invasive trophoblast released vasodilators which would dilate spiral arteries as an initial step in the physiology of transformation.

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  • Stage one is the earliest stage of labor where the cervix begins to dilate.

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  • They allow your pupils to dilate in response to the tint, but don't block out the rays.

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  • In some cases the blood vessels might not go through the initial shutdown phase but dilate excessively and cause this intense redness and burning.

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  • Your cervix will continue to dilate until it reaches ten centimeters, and your labor pains will be intense.

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  • During this state, heart rate increases and blood vessels dilate in muscles and constrict everywhere else; the body is on high alert.

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  • Blood vessel dilate, which causes a body to feel warmer than it may be in reality.

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  • Your pupils will naturally dilate in the dark room, so as IR light enters your eyes, you can see the room in the glow of the reflected infrared light that only you can see.

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  • By creating shade for your eyes with no UV filter, it causes your pupils to dilate and allow more sunlight-UV rays-in.

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  • A dark tint will make your pupils dilate and without the protection of a UV coating, more of the dangerous rays will make their way into your eyes.

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  • Dystocia-Failure to progress in labor, either because the cervix will not dilate (expand) further or because the head does not descend through the mother's pelvis after full dilation of the cervix.

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  • Besides infection, urine that backs up causes the ureter and the kidney to expand or dilate.

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  • Cervical cerclage-A procedure in which the cervix of the uterus is sewn closed, it is used in cases when the cervix starts to dilate too early in a pregnancy to allow the birth of a healthy baby.

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  • The fetus is upside down in the uterus, and the head will dilate the cervix (or vaginal opening) and lead the way during the birth process.

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  • The walls of arteries have a layer of muscle and elastic tissue that makes them flexible and able to dilate and constrict as blood flows through them.

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  • Prior to the examination, medicated drops are put into the eyes to dilate the pupils, and anesthetic drops may also be used.

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  • Shock can occur when the released histamine causes the blood vessels to dilate, which lowers blood pressure; histamine also causes fluids to leak from the bloodstream into the tissues, lowering the blood volume.

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  • Severe inflammation causes the colon to dilate or stretch, and the thin colon wall may eventually tear.

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  • A pediatrician, family doctor, ophthalmologist, or optometrist licensed to use diagnostic drugs uses drops that dilate the pupils and temporarily paralyze eye-focusing muscles to evaluate visual status and ocular health.

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  • Since children are capable of over focusing, dilation can help the eye care practitioner determine a child's true prescription because the drugs used to dilate also impair this tendency to over focus.

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  • When the skin is burned, the blood vessels dilate and leak fluid.

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  • At the beginning of labor, your cervix will begin to thin and dilate.

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  • In the last hours or days before labor, contractions help the cervix thin and dilate, becoming more frequent and severe.

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  • In addition, although you may not feel this, your cervix will begin to dilate and soften during the final weeks leading up to delivery.

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  • An allergic reaction causes your blood vessels to dilate which increase blood flow.

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  • Three to five minutes walking at a moderate pace will get your blood circulating and cause blood vessels to dilate.

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  • Braxton Hicks contractions may occur, which can be very confusing for first time mothers because they feel similar to labor contractions but they do not cause the cervix to dilate or efface.

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  • That this action is a direct and not a nervous one is shown by the fact that if the eye be suddenly shaded the pupil will dilate a little, showing that the nerves which cause dilatation are still competent after the administration of physostigmine.

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  • Drugs acting on the blood vessels, which either dilate the vessels when taken internally or applied locally, or contract the superficial arterioles.

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  • Her eyes traveled his face, and he saw her pupils dilate as the nearness and heat between them fed into the sexual tension.

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  • If you watch his pupils, you will be able to see them start to dilate just before he bites.

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  • It usually occurs after the cervix has started to dilate slightly and the mucus plug that keeps the cervix sealed from potential pathogens becomes dislodged.

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  • The contractions thin out and dilate the cervix; they also help the baby descend into the birth canal.

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  • You may also experience reddening or flushing of your skin due to niacin's ability to dilate surface capillaries and bring blood to the regions below your skin surface.

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  • When this gland becomes enlarged, and its secretion consequently increases, the vessels dilate, the heart beats more rapidly, the skin becomes too hot, the nervous system becomes irritable, and tremors occur in the limbs.

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  • Small doses of any of them dilate the blood vessels from an action on the vaso-motor centre in the medulla oblongata, as a result of which the heart beats more rapidly and the blood circulates more freely; but larger doses have a general depressing effect upon the circulatory system.

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  • Externally chloroforrr ‘ is an antiseptic, a local anaesthetic if allowed to evaporate, and a rubefacient, causing the vessels of the skin to dilate, if rubbed in.

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  • But whilst the characteristic action of atropine is to dilate the blood-vessels, its first action is to stimulate the vaso-motor centre - thereby causing temporary contraction of the vessels - and to increase the rapidity of the heart's action, so that the blood-pressure rapidly rises.

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  • Atropine is universally and constantly used in ophthalmic practice in order to dilate the pupil for examination of the retina by the ophthalmoscope, or in cases where the inflamed iris threatens to form adhesions to neighbouring parts.

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  • Symptoms attendant on the hypnotic state are closure of the eyelids by the hypnotizer without subsequent attempt to open them by the hypnotized subject; the pupils, instead of being constricted, as for near vision, dilate, and there sets in a condition superficially resembling sleep. But in natural sleep the action of all parts of the nervous system is subdued, whereas in the hypnotic the reactions of the lower, and some even of the higher, parts are exalted.

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  • They therefore lessen all the secretions, and among other actions dilate the pupil and increase the rapidity of the heart by paralysing the vagus.

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  • Taking up a piece, he would request his visitor not to breathe upon it, nor handle it; he would dilate upon the many merits of the drug and the cures it had effected.

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  • Loch Dilate lies 11 m.

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