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Definition of Distensibility
1. n. The quality or capacity of being distensible.
Definition of Distensibility
1. Noun. Capability of swelling or stretching. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Distensibility
1. [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Distensibility
1. The capability of being distended or stretched. Origin: L. Dis-tendo, to stretch apart (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distensibility
Literary usage of Distensibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blood-pressure: Its Clinical Applications by George William Norris (1917)
"Thus, if we can be sure that distensibility remains unchanged, then amplitude is
a relative ... Hut how are we to gauge this factor of distensibility? ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1871)
"A normal amount of distensibility is possessed by the mass of organic fibre which
... By distensibility is not meant here the normal distention by ..."
3. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"If this diastolic distensibility remains unaltered in cardiac weakness, then the
diastolic and venous pressures are raised as a result of weakness of the ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Such an increase is not necessary, however, for it is possible that the increased
distensibility during systole which characterizes the weakened heart ..."
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