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Definitions of distend
  1. verb
    become wider

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  2. verb
    cause to expand as it by internal pressure
    "The gas distended the animal's body"
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  3. verb
    swell from or as if from internal pressure
    "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
Definition that contains distend
  • puffy abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  • erectile filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
  • tumescent abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  • cavernous filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
  • turgid abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  • dilator a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ
  • dilater a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ
  • intumescent abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  • puff up make larger or distend
  • distensible capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand
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