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- 1. swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside: "the abdomen distended rapidly"
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(usually of the stomach or another part of the body) to swell and become large, especially because of pressure from inside: During digestion, sugar may produce wind that distends the stomach. The medication I take causes my lower belly to distend. Fewer examples. Many doctors use different liquids to distend the bladder prior to a biopsy.
: to become enlarged, expanded, or stretched out. causing the stomach to distend. Did you know? The history of the word distend stretches back to the Latin verb tendere —a root whose kin have really expanded the English language.
(usually of the stomach or another part of the body) to swell and become large, especially because of pressure from inside: During digestion, sugar may produce wind that distends the stomach. The medication I take causes my lower belly to distend. Fewer examples. Many doctors use different liquids to distend the bladder prior to a biopsy.
Distend definition: to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic. See examples of DISTEND used in a sentence.
Your stomach will certainly feel stretched out if you do something — like overeat — that causes it to distend. The word distend often applies to stomachs — a pregnancy would also cause a stomach to distend — but it can also refer to anything that is stretched out as a result of internal pressure.
1. to expand or be expanded by or as if by pressure from within; swell; inflate. 2. (transitive) to stretch out or extend. 3. (transitive)
To expand; make or become swollen. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To cause to expand, especially from internal pressure; dilate. Fluid distends a blister. American Heritage Medicine. Similar definitions. (biology) To cause gravidity. Wiktionary. Synonyms: dilate. widen. swell. inflate. spread. elongate. bulge. bloat. balloon. augment.
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1. to expand or be expanded by or as if by pressure from within; swell; inflate. 2. (tr) to stretch out or extend. 3. (tr) to magnify in importance; exaggerate. [C14: from Latin distendere, from dis- 1 + tendere to stretch] disˈtender n. disˈtensible adj. disˌtensiˈbility n. disˈtension, disˈtention n.
