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In patients with ARDS and acute pulmonary hypertension, inhaled NO has been shown to selectively dilate pulmonary vessels perfusing ventilated lung areas, and to improve arterial oxygenation [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9].
The explosive tension of the epigram serves to focus consciousness, while the opennness of poetic imagery serves to dilate consciousness.
In the continuous presence of MTX, blebs continue to swell and in many cases seem to disappear as they dilate and extend out of the focal plane.
On the upside: 1) Former guitarist John Frusciante returns to give the band a hint of their former jammy-jammin' glory; and 2) Rolling Stone is wildly positive (four stars), if completely alone in its enthusiasm--"They've written a whole album's worth of tunes that tickle the ear, romance the booty, swell the heart, moisten the tear ducts and dilate the third eye" (Greg Tate).
Were it an ordinary quiz and were you ordinary quiz participants, I'd dilate on your detestation of cutesy unconventional spelling.