Sentence examples for distention from inspiring English sources

These endocrine cells secrete the acid-stimulating hormone gastrin as a response to lowered acidity of the gastric contents when food enters the stomach and gastric distention.

As the uterus grows in size, it presses on these channels, causing impairment of the lymphatic drainage from the woman's legs, with resultant swelling and distention of her feet and legs.

A fracture may also unite slowly or not at all because of deficient blood supply to one or more of the bone fragments, separation of the fragments by distention or interposition of a tendon, ligament, or fat, or excessive motion at the fracture site.

Acute hydramnios, in which fluids collect quickly and cause rapid distention of the uterus, is rare.

In the 1940s Sir Vincent Briann) Wigglesworth discovered that distention of the abdomen of the blood-sucking hemipteran bug Rhodnius prolixus following consumption of a blood meal sends neural impulses to the brain and triggers the release of PTTH.

Sensory neurons relay information regarding distention and acidity to the central nervous system.

In the abdomen it can be used to detect fluid (ascites), a gaseous distention of the intestine as occurs in bowel obstruction, or an enlargement of the liver.

During erection, blood flows into the spaces, causing distention and elevation of the penis.

A true reflection of Mr. Boulton's life, after all, might look more like a fun-house mirror distortion of the Manhattan high life — with distentions in the areas of sex, drugs and ego.

So in the action sequences we get essayistic asides and languid distentions, stray insights, surprising correspondences, ambivalence, paradox.

However calculatedly he'd parlayed his bodily strangeness into artistic and commercial success, in middle age he still feared the "wounds, holes, distentions; stretch-marks of his pre-fame, cramped embodiment".