Definitions for dilator

dilator di·la·tor

Spelling: [dahy-ley-ter, di-, dahy-ley-]
IPA: /daɪˈleɪ tər, dɪ-, ˈdaɪ leɪ-/

Dilator is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in dilator (adilort).

Definitions for dilator

noun

  1. Anatomy. a muscle that dilates some cavity of the body.
  2. Surgery. an instrument for dilating body canals, orifices, or cavities.

Origin of dilator

First recorded in 1595-1605; dilate + -or2

Examples for dilator

The only difficulty which may be experienced is in entering the dilator into the punctum, owing to the small size of the latter.

Numerous and but slightly differing forms of the dilator are on the market.

This shoe is also provided with bar-clips, and forcibly expanded at the heels by means of a dilator.

Sterilized vaseline or glycerine of perchloride of mercury may be smeared over the point of the dilator to facilitate its passage.

As the fibres which supply the dilator pupillæ are involved, the pupils are contracted.

(·01 grain) caused in a weakly colt some acceleration of the pulse and a partial paralysis of the dilator narium.

This is reassuring to the surgeon, and at this point the dilator should be introduced and the ansthetic abandoned.

Word Value for dilator
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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