dilatation

noun
🔊/ˌdaɪləˈteɪʃn/, 🔊/ˌdɪləˈteɪʃn/
🔊/ˌdaɪləˈteɪʃn/, 🔊/ˌdɪləˈteɪʃn/
[uncountable] (medical医学)
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  1. the process of becoming wider (= of becoming dilated), or the action of making something become wider扩张;扩大;膨胀
    Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin dilatatio(n-), from the verb dilatare ‘spread out’, from di- ‘apart’ + latus ‘wide’.