Distend Definition

dĭ-stĕnd
distended, distending, distends
verb
distended, distending, distends
To stretch out.
Webster's New World
To expand; make or become swollen.
Webster's New World
To cause to expand, especially from internal pressure; dilate.
Fluid distends a blister.
American Heritage Medicine

(biology) To cause gravidity.

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Origin of Distend

  • Middle English distenden from Latin distendere dis- dis- tendere to stretch ten- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Distend Sentence Examples

  • In these children, feces have become impacted in the child's colon, causing it to distend.

  • When this happens, air enters the gastrointestinal system, causing the bowels to distend, and mucus is breathed into the lungs causing aspiration pneumonia and breathing problems.

  • To drive the air out of this skin by pressing on it, or even by walking on it, would be easy; to fill it again with air by pulling its sides apart with his fingers would be so irksome that he would soon learn to distend it by means of strings.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIS

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DNDEND

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Words Starting With D and Ending With D

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