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verb
- 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.
1. : extend. the main outlines of the land yet lay clearly distended before them Norman Douglas. 2. : to enlarge, expand, or stretch out (as from internal pressure) : swell. a distended abdomen. intransitive verb. : to become enlarged, expanded, or stretched out. causing the stomach to distend. Did you know?
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.
(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 (something) to swell (= become larger and rounder than before) or make something swell because of pressure from inside. He tied a piece of cloth around his upper arm to impede circulation and distend the veins.
verb. If a part of your body is distended, or if it distends, it becomes swollen and unnaturally large. [medicine, formal] Through this incision, the abdominal cavity is distended with carbon dioxide gas. [be VERB -ed] The colon, or large intestine, distends and fills with gas. [VERB] [ Also VERB noun]
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.
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.
Distend definition, to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic: Habitual overeating had distended his stomach. See more.
