dilatable
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Again, an inquirer might ask, If it is so dilatable, why should we run the risk of cutting the prostate at all?
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
It so happened in this case that the peritoneum was extremely dilatable, and the uterus, with the child inside, made its way into the peritoneal sac.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The first three segments behind the head were dilatable at the will of the insect, and had on each side a large black pupillated spot, which resembled the eye of the reptile.
From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace
The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved teeth, but they had paddlelike feet.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O by Project Gutenberg
