wideners

Devices increasing breadth

Wideners, a plural noun from the verb widen, are things that make something wider, that is, greater in extent from side to side.

tools

reamers

Hole-widening implements

stretchers · dilators · gauges · spreaders · machining · mandrels · broaches · tapers · calibration · metalworking

optical

pupils

Students or eye openings

iris · ophthalmology · eye drops · atropine · retina · examination · vision · light · photography · f-stop

roads

highways

Major intercity roads

shoulders · construction · traffic · infrastructure · asphalt · medians · turnpikes · thoroughfares · arterials · bottlenecks

gaps

disparities

Unequal differences in condition

margins · spreads · differences · polarization · rifts · separations · gulfs · divisions · distances · stratification

vessels

vasodilators

Agents widening blood vessels

circulation · hypertension · medications · veins · capillaries · nitroglycerin · angina · cardiac · pharmaceuticals · relaxants

Opposites
dimensional change

widenersconstrictors

Snakes killing by compression

compressors · reducers · shrinkers · tighteners · squeezers

scope/capacity effect

widenersrestrictors

Devices that constrain flow

limiters · constrictors · reducers · inhibitors · blockers

spatial effect

widenersrestrictors

Devices that constrain flow

closers · blockers · occluders · clamps · tourniquets

Family

widener, widened, wideness

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