Crossword clues for distended
distended
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distend \Dis*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distended; p. pr. & vb. n. Distending.] [L. distendere, distentum, distensum; dis- + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. F. distendre to distend, d['e]tendre to unbend. See Tend, and cf. Detent.]
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To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. [R.]
But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven Distended as the brow of God appeased?
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To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc.
The warmth distends the chinks.
--Dryden.Syn: To dilate; expand; enlarge; swell; inflate.
Wiktionary
1 Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swell. 2 (context biology English) gravid. v
(en-past of: distend)
WordNet
adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn: bloated, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid]
abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes" [syn: swollen]
Usage examples of "distended".
A bull when enraged exhibits his rage only by the manner in which be holds his lowered head, with distended nostrils, and by bellowing.
It is, therefore, certain that both the arteries and the veins of the eye are more or less distended during violent expiration.
So again if our infants, during many generations, and each of them during several years, had almost daily suffered from prolonged choking-fits, during which the vessels of the eye are distended and tears copiously secreted, then it is probable, such is the force of associated habit, that during after life the mere thought of a choke, without any distress of mind, would have sufficed to bring tears into our eyes.
Moreover, as soon as the man is compelled to draw breath, be still keeps his chest as much distended as possible.
Bell maintains[13] that the chest is distended with air, and is kept distended at such times, in order to give a fixed support to the muscles which are thereto attached.
Some of them allude to the firmly-compressed mouth, the distended nostrils, and flashing eyes.
There were several brain cases distended like bladders to a huge size, with the face mask reduced to quite small proportions.
All knowledge is stored in distended brains much as the honey-ants of Texas store honey in their distended abdomens.
There were dark-toned pouches of skin below his eyes and other marks of sickness carved around his mouth and evident in the distended blue veins on the back of his hands as he handed a glass of Madeira to Zouga.
Feeling under the staring rib cage her fingertips encountered the hard distended shape of liver and spleen, and Fuller Ballantyne screamed when she did so, The swelling and extreme tenderness were certain indications of massive malarial infection of long duration, and evidence of terrible neglect.
It was only as they passed and it bobbed and rolled in their wake that Clinton realized that it was a human corpse, stomach distended, round and shiny with gas and limbs twisted like the branches of a tree blasted by lightning.
The cock yawed a moment before the distended cleft and then drove in with a single thrust, the man still grasping his whip haft.
The girl moved to the victim's reared head, noticing with pleasure the tears and sweat pouring down the cheeks, the artery in the distended neck pulsing behind the studded collar.
The hawk swooped with distended talons on to her and bore her screaming into the cloudy heights.
Anselme's grey eyes roamed over Martine's bulk and extremities of distended flesh.