Due to injury to the cervix during dilation used in some abortions, your next baby may have a low birth weight or you may be more likely to have a spontaneous abortion in later pregnancies.
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Dilation
Synonyms for "dilation" (107 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 9 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- dilatació noun (act of dilating)
French
1 entries- dilatation noun (act of dilating)
Galician
2 entries- dilatación noun (act of dilating)
- dilatación noun (state of being dilated)
Hungarian
4 entries- kitágulás noun (state of being dilated)
- kitágítás noun (act of dilating)
- tágulat noun (state of being dilated)
- tágulás noun (state of being dilated)
Irish
2 entries- leathadh noun (act of dilating)
- leathadh noun (state of being dilated)
Portuguese
2 entries- dilatação noun (act of dilating)
- dilatação noun (state of being dilated)
Russian
1 entries- дилатация noun (act of dilating)
Spanish
1 entries- dilatación noun (act of dilating)
Turkish
1 entries- dilatasyon noun (act of dilating)
Sample sentences
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Time dilation is an interesting phenomenon.
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This effect is called time dilation.
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It seems there are always members of the scientific community who are eager for the chance to knock the air out of Albert Einstein's nearly 100 year-old General Theory of Relativity. This milestone work describes how the elemental force of gravity helps to shape the geometry of space and time. And some of its predictions — involving phenomena like the dilation of time, the motion of bodies in free fall and the gravitational bending of light — are mind-bendingly different than those of classical physics.
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