Distension Definition

Distension Sentence Examples

• It is likely to produce a small excess of flatulence and possibly gastric distension.

• Intestinal pain arises from stimuli such as swelling, inflammation, and distension.

• The folds can be stretched out, so that the skin is capable of a great degree of distension.

• Flatulent distension in the stomach or bowels is partly due to air which has been swallowed and partly to gas which has been formed by the decomposition of food.

• In the Ixodidae the capitulum is not overlapped by a forward extension of the dorsal area, which is smooth and firmly chitinized either in front or all over; the palpi are usually modified, that is to say, their second and third segments are usually excavated internally to form a sheath for the hypostome; there is a distinct sucker beneath the claws and the difference between the sexes is well marked, the males having the dorsal integument thickly and continuously chitinized, whereas in the females only its anterior portion bears a chitinous plate, the rest of the integument being soft to admit of its distension by the blood which is imbibed in quantity by members of this sex.