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" (104 found)
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13 entriesanatomical changechangediscoursediscussionenlargementexpansionimage processing operationmappingmorphological operationphysiological changeprocesstransformationtreatment
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8 entriesarterial dilationbinary dilationcentral dilationcervical dilationgrayscale dilationisotropic dilationpupillary dilationuniform scaling
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6 entriesarterial dilationcentral dilationcervical dilationmorphological dilationpupillary dilationuniform scaling
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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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