Usually means: Expansion or dilation of organ.
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  1. ectasis: Collins English Dictionary
  2. ectasis: Vocabulary.com
  3. ectasis: Wordnik
  4. ectasis: Wiktionary
  5. ectasis: Dictionary.com
  6. Ectasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. ectasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. ectasis: Rhymezone
  9. Ectasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. ectasis: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ectasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Ectasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ectasis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ectasis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. -ectasis, ectasis: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ectasis)

noun:  (medicine) dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.
noun:  (phonology) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

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