dilator

From dilate + -or.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

dilator (plural dilators)

1. (anatomy) Any nerve or muscle that causes part of the body to dilate.
2. (medicine) Any drug that causes such dilation.
3. (medicine) An instrument used to dilate an orifice or cavity.

• (that which causes dilation): dilatator, dilater

• bronchodilator
• cardiodilator
• iris dilator muscle
• vasodilator
• venodilator

• Altidor, ortalid

Internationalism.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /diˈlator/ [diˈla.t̪ɔr]
• Rhymes: -ator
• Syllabification: di‧la‧tor

dilator (plural dilator-dilator)

1. dilator
   1. (anatomy) any nerve or muscle that causes part of the body to dilate.
   2. (medicine, pharmacology) any drug that causes such dilation.
   3. (medicine, surgery) an instrument used to dilate an orifice or cavity.

• “dilator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈlaː.tor]

dīlātus, perfect passive participle of differō (“to carry apart; to defer, delay”) +‎ -tor.

dīlātor m (genitive dīlātōris); third declension

1. one who delays, a dilatory person

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dīlātor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dīlātō

• “dilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dilator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.