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Distend meaning
To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell | To extend; to stretch out; to spread out. | To cause to swell.
Example sentences (4)
They will sweat, vomit, succumb to an alcoholic dementia that destroys their co-ordination and memories and see their liver fail and stomach distend.
Its stomach was muscular, and could distend to allow the animal to eat large amounts of food at one time, probably an adaptation to compensate for long periods when hunting was unsuccessful and food scarce.
These rivers constitute 20% of India's total outflow. citation The heavy southwest monsoon rains cause the Brahmaputra and other rivers to distend their banks, often flooding surrounding areas.
Unlike the epithelial lining of most organs, transitional epithelium can flatten and distend.