Enlargement Definition

Enlargement Sentence Examples

• Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).

• It is the immediate cause of the phenomena of circumnutation, each cell of the circumnutating organ showing a rhythmic enlargement and decrease of its dimensions, due to the admission of more and less water into its interior.

• There is, however, only one large lake in the state - Flathead (or Selish) Lake, which may be regarded as an enlargement of Flathead river; it is 27 m.

• The growth of an organic being is simply a process of enlargement, as a particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water; its death is a shrinkage, such as the swelled jelly might undergo on desiccation.

• In chronic cases the eventual effects are anaemia, melanosis, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and general cachexia.