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Definition of Distends
1. distend [v] - See also: distend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distends
Literary usage of Distends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1874)
"But the ventricle, in impelling the blood-wave into the arteries, distends the
valves of the aorta, which, the moment the ventricular impulse is finished, ..."
2. Medical gynecology by Howard Atwood Kelly (1912)
"The speculum, which is only 1 cm. in diameter, can be introduced without injury
to the hymen. In the knee-breast position the vagina distends to a maximum ..."
3. A Text-book of human physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and by Austin Flint (1881)
"Each impulse first distends that portion of the tube nearest to it, and farther
on the ... The blood discharged from the heart distends the elastic vessel, ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The bottom of the external fossa of the peritoneum corresponds to the position
of the internal abdominal ring, and a hernia which distends and pushes out ..."
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