ectasia
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis), from ἐκτείνω (ekteínō, “I stretch out”) + -σῐς (-sis), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) + τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛkˈteɪzjə/
Noun
ectasia (countable and uncountable, plural ectasias)
- (medicine) Synonym of ectasis
Derived terms
- angioectasia
- dolichoectasia
- gastrectasia
- keratectasia
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ectasia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Italian
Noun
ectasia f (plural ectasie)
- (medicine) ectasis
Anagrams
- asciate, cestaia
Spanish
Noun
ectasia f (plural ectasias)
- (medicine) ectasis
Further reading
- “ectasia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014