dilation
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Caffeine temporarily shrinks blood vessels and less dilation means less visible swelling.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Not only do we tend to mirror each other’s movements, postures, facial expressions and gestures; we also uncannily sync up our heart rates, blood pressure, pupil dilation and hormonal activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
This is important because insulin-assisted dilation helps move glucose from the bloodstream into body tissues, lowering blood sugar after meals.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2025
Caffeine has a time dilation on it so it could be hours that I’m in there or 30 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
Such ships could not travel close enough to the speed of light for special relativistic time dilation to become important.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The results show no difference between the groups in terms of new heart attacks, new unplanned balloon dilations or the total number of all-cause deaths.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Like all beauties, these are dilations of time.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
The stopped time of a painting, say, or the dilations of the novel, in which it is possible to see patterns and consequences that are otherwise invisible.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2020
The results showed that people with consistently larger pupil dilations made the most erratic decisions.
From Forbes ● Sep. 24, 2014
All the temporal dilations we had gone through were catching up with me.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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