dilated

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/daɪˈleɪtɪd/

adjective

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01
adjective
Made wider or more open than usual.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Relatively large.

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She's having contractions. How dilated is her cervix?
My eyes were dilated.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

simple past and past participle of dilate
Having undergone dilation; enlarged.

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Tom's pupils became dilated.
Is a little better, more conscious, and quieter, bowels purged, mercurial stools, pulse jerking 144, right pupil rather more dilated than the left.
M. Wecker found with ophthalmoscope a pale papilla, indications of hypertrophy of cellular tissue, very dilated veins, and some little hæmorrhagic spots.

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Is a little better, more conscious, and quieter, bowels purged, mercurial stools, pulse jerking 144, right pupil rather more dilated than the left.
1847, Samuel Solly, The Human Brain, page 318
Now the rays of yellow being more refracted by the first Superficies of the said Air than those of red, are thereby made more oblique to the second Superficies, at which they are reflected to produce the colour'd Rings, and consequently the yellow Circle in each Ring will be more dilated than the red; and the Excess of its Dilatation will be so much the greater, by how much the greater is the obliquity of the Rays, until at last it become of equal extent with the red of the same Ring.
1704, Isaac Newton, Newton's Opticks
Both pupils were very dilated, and quite inactive, excepting that she could distinguish light from darkness with the RIGHT eye, was quite blind, and had lost all power of smell.
1864, month=October, John W. Ogle, “Original Communications: Cases illustrating the Formation of Morbid Growths, Deposits, Tumours, Cysts, &c., in connexion with the Brain and Spinal Cord, and their Investing Membranes. With Observations”, in British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, volume 34, page 484
M. Wecker found with ophthalmoscope a pale papilla, indications of hypertrophy of cellular tissue, very dilated veins, and some little hæmorrhagic spots.
2023, Walter Rivington, A Case of Pulsating Tumour of the Left Orbit, page 107
The sternum forms a long, linear, deeply channeled lobe, between the coxæ, the apex very dilated, cordate, with a very elevated ridge in the centre, like a nose in profile
1855, John Curtis, “Remarks relative to the affinities and analogies of natural objects, more particularly of Hypocephalus, a Genus of Coleoptera”, in The transactions of the Linnean Society of London

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The paramedic noticed the slowly blank— pupils of the unconscious man.

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The paramedic noticed the slowly blank pupils of the unconscious man.