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Word Meanings - DILATATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

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  • DILATORILY
    With delay; tardily.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • DILATOR
    A muscle that dilates any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, widens or expands.
  • MUSCLE READING
    The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
  • DILATORINESS
    The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
  • MUSCLED
    Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.
  • MUSCLE
    See CONTRACTION (more info) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix. The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up. Note:
  • DILATORY
    dilatus, used as p. p. of differe to defer, delay: cf. F. dilatoire. 1. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant. 2. Marked by
  • VASODILATOR
    Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso- inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since
  • INDILATORY
    Not dilatory.

 

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