Sentence examples for distending from inspiring English sources

The back of the child's head accordingly advances along the lower birth canal, distending its walls and dilating its cavity while the head progresses.

When the valves do not function properly, the blood collects in the superficial veins, distending and twisting them.

Surgical drainage of the cavity, to prevent pressure from distending it further, may result in improvement.

By that time a distinguishing element in his films was a total disregard for physical reality, as evidenced in the loose, elastic stretching and distending of the shapes of his characters.

At fifty thousand feet, any gases trapped in the body expand to more than eight times their volume at sea level, swelling intestines, rupturing lung tissue, and distending the abdomen until it hinders breathing.

He scowled and rescowled, raising his upper lip and distending his nostrils — a grimace that Bogdan would one day learn to recognize as threatening.

Aid donors shake their heads at the sight of slightly glassy-eyed Yemeni men whiling away each afternoon, their cheeks distended with tennis-ball-sized gobs of masticated leaves.

The abdomens of those with kwashiorkor, however, distend in a way that is distressingly familiar from televised appeals for famine relief.

Spreads between these distended borrowing costs and those on German bunds have widened to more than 4%; a year ago they were around 1%.Portugal is vulnerable not because it is an identikit version of either Greece or Ireland, but because it shares some of the symptoms of both those afflicted economies.

But anyone in the know would have been unlikely to bet against The Tsunami.After the contest, his belly grossly distended, Mr Kobayashi was asked what next.

She breathes rapidly, her belly sticking out from a dirty T-shirt, distended by hunger.