Definitions for dilators

dilators di·la·tor

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

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

You can make 499 anagrams from letters in dilators (adilorst).

Definitions for dilators

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 dilators

First recorded in 1595-1605; dilate + -or2

Examples for dilators

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for dilators
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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