Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See distention.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of distending.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as distention.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions
- n. the act of expanding by pressure from within
Examples
“As a bloated corpse swells and its distended belly explodes, sending guts flying and Booth retching, Bones does a happy dance: You rarely get to actually see a body rupture from distension.”
“We especially feel the distension of the women's faces, arms and hand muscles.”
The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
“During this first seventy-two hours, she does not pass urine and her bladder distension only worsens, so I press a needle into her abdomen just above the pubic bone.”
“It was at that point that his abdomen expanded, little by little, darkening toward blackness as the distension increased.”
“(He looks off in to the distension of the hormone.)”
Fictionaut: Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
“These can help decrease distension of the stomach.”
The Huffington Post: Leo Galland, M.D.: Acid Reflux: The Truth Behind Heartburn
“When you eat a lot at one time it causes stomach distension, which triggers relaxation of the LES.”
The Huffington Post: Leo Galland, M.D.: Acid Reflux: The Truth Behind Heartburn
“Inflammation—a red, hot, painful distension—was attributed to an overabundance of blood.”
“A hissing sound, a distension of the jaw, and he has turned into somebody else: it happens, in other words, behind his eyes.”
“One woman I knew ignored the distension and discomfort in her abdomen for three months.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘distension’.
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A Swelling
Nouns meaning a swelling
tumor, inflation, distension, distention, intumescence, hypertrophy, tuber, tubercle, tuberculum, tuberosity, gibbosity, apophysis and 1 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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SAT WORDS TEST 10
SAT CB Practice Exam 10
feigned, jocular, modicum, exonerated, distension, altruism, exemplars, obsequious, lackadaisical, husbandry, plaudits
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Lump, Bump, or Part that Sticks Out
Words meaning a lump, bump, or a structure that sticks out
condyle, eminentia, tumor, projecture, condylus, nodus, tuber, umbo, bulla, torus, tuberculum, apophysis and 21 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir distention Nov 24, 2010