Sentence examples for distension from inspiring English sources
The word 'distension' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun meaning the act or process of stretching or becoming swollen, typically as a result of internal pressure. Example: The doctor observed the distension of the patient's abdomen, indicating possible symptoms of an underlying condition.
noun
The act of distending.
The mucous membrane lining the bladder is distensible; it is ridged in the empty organ and smoothed out in distension.
This bacterium, which causes life-threatening distension of the gut in some people who have been treated with antibiotics and thus had their microbiomes disrupted, is a bane of hospitals.
Obstruction to the flow of urine also may be revealed by distension of the calyceal system above the site of obstruction.
As long as food is present in the foregut, the threshold is raised by signals from distension receptors in that area.
As a result of the defect, the arterial blood is passed to the venous side of the fistula, and the blood pressure in the vein increases, causing distension.
Emphysema, abnormal distension of the lungs with air, is a lung disease reaching its highest incidence between the ages of 45 and 65.
Among the most beautiful are frayed distensions or blooms of pale paper whose remarkably complex silhouettes suggest everything from dried flowers and plucked chickens to jellyfish, quadrupeds and small ghosts.
Mr. Maazel is often at his most persuasive in Sibelius, perhaps because the distensions of tempo and phrase that he so enjoys seem integral to the composer's aesthetic, which came to rely less on standard theme and development than on a churning formative process.
But the rendition Mr. Zimmermann gave with Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic on Thursday went a long way toward redacting memories of ponderously regal accounts led by Kurt Masur, and of Lorin Maazel's willful distensions and distortions in Beethoven.
You may not want to know too much about huitlacoche, a fungus that grows on corn, displacing the sunny kernels with ashy, bulbous distensions.
There's nothing arch or artificial about Hu's drastic distensions of cinematic time; his volatile silences and wild outbursts unflinchingly reveal the raw survivalism, feral aggression, selfish depravity, and poisonous rage of a society abused by brute force and ruthless indifference and yielding to despair.
