INFLATABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inflatable mean? 

• INFLATABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INFLATABLE has 1 sense:

1. designed to be filled with air or gas

  Familiarity information: INFLATABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFLATABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Designed to be filled with air or gas

Context example:

an inflatable boat

Similar:

expansive (able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion)

Derivation:

inflate (fill with gas or air)

 Context examples 

Administration of the agent involving the passage of an inflatable catheter outside the lumen of a blood vessel.

(Extraluminal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

An inflatable reservoir that is used to expand the remaining breast skin after a mastectomy and prior to surgical reconstruction.

(Breast Tissue Expander, NCI Thesaurus)

An inflatable balloon attached to the endoscope's tip acts as a stabilizer and a second balloon that is advanced ahead of the endoscope acts as a pulling device.

(Balloon-Guided Endoscopic Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

A therapeutic procedure involving the insertion of an inflatable balloon catheter filled with radioactive material into a resection cavity in order to deliver radiation to any remaining cancer cells in and around the tumor bed.

(Balloon Brachytherapy, NCI Thesaurus)