Dilation

Dilatation (from the Latin dilatare, extend, expand, enlarge ' ) stands for:

Chemistry:

• The change in the volume of a body by changing the pressure, temperature, or other state variables, see also dilatation (chemistry)

Physics:

• A length expansion due to power or heat, see also dilatometer
• Time dilation, a phenomenon of the theory of relativity

Mathematics:

• Dilation ( geometry)
• Dilation ( graph theory)
• Dilation ( image processing ), basic operation of mathematical morphology

Medicine:

• Dilation of blood vessels due to relaxation of the vascular smooth muscle, vasodilation see
• Dilation of blood vessels by wall changes, see aneurysm
• Therapeutic Extending organs or vessels, see bougienage
• Especially in cardiology, see balloon

Biology:

• Formation of new tissue in the radial direction at the growth in thickness

See also:

• Disambiguation