Lexicographical Neighbors of Distentions
Literary usage of Distentions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"We are also to consider, that in all considerable distentions there is an increase
of friction between the vessels and circulating fluids, and consequently ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"... below, or between the folds would have been seen amongst compressions and
distentions, the effect not of inward pain, but of external pressure. ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"... below, or between the folds would have been seen amongst compressions and
distentions, the effect not of inward pain, but of external pressure. ..."
4. Respiration by John Scott Haldane (1922)
"... inference was drawn that repeated distention of the lungs produces a summed
vagus effect resulting in vagus apnoea after the distentions have ceased. ..."
5. A Compendious system of midwifery: Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the by William Dewees (1853)
"... and that, in the moderate distentions of the bladder, the peritoneum leaves
completely the vagina, and applies itself to the bladder. It is also true, ..."
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