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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.
to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic: Habitual overeating had distended his stomach.
2.
to spread in all directions; expand; swell: The sea distended about them.
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Distend
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Example Sentences
- The mainliner also requires a tourniquet of some sort to distend veins.
- To make it easier to see and manipulate tissues, a salt solution is injected into the joint to distend it.
- Barium sulfate is used to distend the hollow digestive organs so they can be seen in the images produced by the scan.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
distend
c.1400, from L. distendere "to swell or stretch out, extend," from dis- "apart" + tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). Related: Distended.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
distend di·stend (dĭ-stěnd')
v. dis·tend·ed, dis·tend·ing, dis·tends
To swell out or expand or cause to swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure.
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