dilatable

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The bladder is a dilatable reservoir for the retention of the urine until the discomfort of its presence causes its voluntary discharge.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

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 Bell, Joseph

The nostrils differ in form and position in those two birds, and in the boatbill there exists beneath the lower mandible a dilatable pouch that we do not find in the bal�niceps.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various

Very true; but fortunately the sheath of the prostate, unlike the rind of the chestnut, is very freely dilatable, and will allow the passage of a very considerable stone.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

Many birds have the œsophagus or the skin of the neck more or less dilatable, but in no known bird is it so dilatable as in the pouter pigeon.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George