How To Use Distend In A Sentence
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After many days I noticed my belly was becoming distended.
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Her head is swollen and her tiny stomach distended.
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The starchy food created gas, and the bowels, not having their natural tone, gave way to the gas until there was _ "Meteorism," _ not tympanites but meteorism which means to blow up or distend all that is possible.
Appendicitis
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His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
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His doctor noticed immediately that Tom did look ill: his skin and the whites of his eyes had a yellowish hue this is called jaundice, and he had a swollen, distended abdomen.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK
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Computed tomography showed a large anterior abdominal wall hernia containing distended bowel loops.
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The baby boomers were a population frog moving through the snake of American cultural history, distending its shape by the outsize percentage of the population they represented.
Alberta Hunter: Don't Trust Anyone Under 80
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Rama cupida aequandi bovem, se distendebat, &c. 1717. alit ingenia: Paterculus poster.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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At present he is thin, has severe jaundice and his body is distended as his own liver has become swollen and hard.
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Expose surface and screw head should be wiped antirust oil in the distend cover after finishing.
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-- In children the condition known as imperforate anus may sometimes be remedied by exploratory operations in the perineum, guided by the protrusion caused by the distended intestine.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Most bladder ruptures are extraperitoneal with intraperitoneal ruptures resulting from blunt trauma to a distended bladder or iatrogenic causes.
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They are usually due to the sheaths surrounding the tendons becoming distended with synovia.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Jiro waddled closer, his belly bulging and distended.
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If the distended sheath, or bursal enlargement, is caused by a direct injury or strain, cold bandages should be applied and the part given as complete rest as possible.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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The ascending aorta was enlarged and distended.
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The distended bellies of the starving cows
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His head flashed up, huge jaws distended, fangs gleaming, to sink into the slender, silken-hosed ankle above the tan low-cut shoes.
CHAPTER XXVII
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There were no signs of Bleeding into the peritoneal cavity nor of pneumothorax, But the head and neck became increasingly cyanosed and the jugular veins considerably distended.
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The colon, or large intestine, distends and fills with gas.
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In the same ratio, the camels which composed their train were fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty; the size of their oriental pearls was distended till they almost got to the egg of the ostrich: but as a bulse of diamonds sounded well for a Nabobess, the exact quantity contained in a bulse was increased only in the same proportion with the rest of the eastern importation.
Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton
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So, unless the viewing in the Michaud pissoir was of an engorged and distended “Scottie” — which it plainly was not — then Papa was offering Fitzgerald a surrogate form of consolation.
Hemingway's Libidinous Feast
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She is now visibly pregnant, at least, with her clothes off, her belly distended with you and everything around her waist thickening.
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That heroine of Assassins had distended her jaws and throat and belly by means of Polymorphine, like a python.
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The balloon was distended because of filling of hydrogen.
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When Tommy learned that "distending" meant that his stomach was being stretched, he was delighted.
The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause
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As a bloated corpse swells and its distended belly explodes, sending guts flying and Booth retching, Bones does a happy dance: You rarely get to actually see a body rupture from distension.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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As the flexile hose has to be stiffly distended to bear an aqueous gravity of twenty-five to fifty pounds to the square inch, the force of the current can be estimated.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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This morning, it's a dead bird on the small porch, legs up in the air, claws gripping nothing, stomach distended.
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The abdomen was mildly distended, but ascites was not evident.
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The patient was pale with a soft, distended abdomen.
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a purer and queenlier blood than that of the Guinevere she personated; the arch of her neck became more regal; her head rose aloft; her nostril distended itself, and she looked on with a proud smile, in full confidence that bold Lancelot would lose.
Tiger-lilies
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The darkness edged away and there was something in the corner, some terribly old and deformed thing, with a bloated, distended belly and wide staring eyes.
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The intrinsic elasticity of the airways would still allow the airway tree to distend with inspirations and relax with expiration.
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The scars of the stigmas shone like silver beneath her distended skin.
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The opening takes a simple so-la-ti from the scale and distends the first note into another octave (I'm ignoring the grace note, which doesn't always appear in other statements of the theme):
The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon
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The air which fills the lungs is soon again expired, whilst the ingesta of the abdominal viscera are for a longer period retained; and as the space, which by every inspiration the thorax gains from the abdomen, would cause inconvenient pressure on the distended organs of this latter cavity, so we find that to obviate this inconvenience, nature has constructed the anterior parietes of the abdomen of yielding material.
Surgical Anatomy
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Habitual overeating had distended the boy's stomach.
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Through this incision, the abdominal cavity is distended with carbon dioxide gas.
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As in the other case the skin and opercular membranes were distended by liquid beneath them.
Hormones and Heredity
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In this case, the calyces are compressed by the markedly distended renal pelvis.
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The gas distended the animal's body
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In an age when the Air Force budget looks to increase only marginally, if at all, while simultaneously planning to buy several other major aircraft (new aerial tankers, new transports, new heavy bombers, and new helicopters), this plan to distend the fighter-bomber budget is a fool's errand.
Winslow T. Wheeler: What Now, Icarus? Is Western Combat Aviation Falling Out of the Sky?
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A telling image shows her veined hand on the distended stomach of a baby suffering from malnutrition.
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The tropical marine blowfish, which can grossly distend its spiny body into globular form, thereby terrifying confused predators.
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He was pale and sweaty with distended neck veins and a rapid heartbeat.
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She saw a pipe and the skin distending, and heard the sound.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Air distends a balloon.
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Grubby politicians kiss babies; but these two cynical opportunists have chosen to exploit emaciated infants with distended bellies as the visual soundbite for 2005.
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The figure's unnaturally elongated legs and awkwardly distended fingers seem a bit too mannered.
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The plain abdominal films show distended loops of intestine with thickened bowel walls.
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The balloon distended to about five inches in length.
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The abdomen was distended and the outline of the transverse colon clearly visible.
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I opened the stomachs of several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvæ), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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The Aspen Ideas Festival is underway at the Aspen Institute and that means the average Joe and Jane Soave Bolla can gorge on the newer new thing until their stomachs distend into the 21st Century.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: If I Only Had A Brain At Aspen Ideas Fest
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he had a grossly distended stomach
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Jenny, the servant-maid, was overwhelmed with her terrors, and screamed, and continued to scream, until the enraged Burke, throwing her to the ground, crammed her distended jaws with moss enough to make an infant's matrass.
The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.
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We see her cradling her seemingly distended belly in the next scene.
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The abdomen was but slightly distended; there was no fever, no increased leukocytosis, no muscular rigidity, and but slight general tenderness.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
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It's that I have come to resemble a huge, distended pigskin sack that has been stuffed to bursting point with offal and custard by greedy giants.
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In some cases the bladder contains and may be even distended by a soft, pultaceous mass made up of minute, round granules of carbonates of lime and magnesia.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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They are never scoriaceous, for the steam with which they were charged was not allowed to expand and distend them with steam blebs.
The Elements of Geology
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But that horror gave way to a more intense and thrilling emotion as he saw the face -- although strangely free from laceration or disfigurement, and impurpled and distended into the simulation of a self-complacent smile -- was a face he recognized!
From Sand Hill to Pine
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Your doctor will also feel your abdomen to find out if the bladder is distended.
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It was only the rather comic grotesqueness seen sometimes in the face of a little child when he is what his mother calls a naughty boy, and distends his mouth and closes his eyes for a genuine howl.
Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea
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I saw the film again a couple of nights ago at the premiere and ... my God, my lips are like the lips of a horse, kind of distending independently away from my face and trying to encompass the lower half of hers.
Gawker
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The explanted heart was markedly enlarged with a distended, flaccid right ventricular wall.
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While drainage of distended thecae and bursae by means of openings made with hot irons was practiced by the
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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She felt rise within her a purer and queenlier blood than that of the Guinevere she personated; the arch of her neck became more regal; her head rose aloft; her nostril distended itself, and she looked on with a proud smile, in full confidence that bold Lancelot would lose.
Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
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These sounds are most likely the bursting of the abdominal wall distended by gas.
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Mijnheer took up a root here and there, telling her something of the history of each; explaining how the narcissus increased and the tulips grew; showing her hyacinth bulbs cut in half-breadthways with all the separate severed layers distended by reason of the growing and swelling of the seeds between.
The Good Comrade
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Tubes wear out every year or so: They become distended, or they spring leaks.
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Physical examination revealed scleral icterus and a markedly distended abdomen with hepatomegaly.
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Signs and symptoms of caecitis include a distended abdomen, fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and tenderness, and diarrhea.
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George regarded him silently, his nostrils distending and his lean fingers unconsciously crooking like an eagle's talons about to clutch.
CREATED HE THEM
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A microwave field will then interact with this system as two dipoles or a net quadrupole, which causes the vertices to oscillate and the tetrahedron is deformed by being periodically squashed and distended in resonance with the microwave field.
Quantum Hyperion
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The stems are succulent, and have dark green to black distended nodes.
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Why should a bodybuilder aspire to striated glutes if his midsection is distended?
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This was an impurity, introduced, unknown to us, at the same time as the septic vibrio; and the germ undoubtedly passed from the intestines -- always inflamed and distended in septicemic animals -- into the abdominal fluids from which we took our original cultures of the septic vibrio.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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Three small 3 to 5 mm incisions are made and the patient's abdomen is distended with gas.
Kidney Stone Prevention and Treatment in Children
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In April 2003, a young Kazakhstani boy was taken into hospital for an operation on his unusually distended stomach.
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See, you forget that these people exist if you stay at home, avoiding the fair like some sort of black plague that ushers with it human mutants wearing matching mall-photo-booth t-shirts stretched out over gigantic, distended Orca bellies, fried foods running in congealed little balls down their protruding and exposed torsos, long rat tails of hair hanging …
The Archive
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The breathing pattern should be observed, and the patient should be asked to distend the abdomen and then flatten it.
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Over the next eight days, the patient's condition continued to decline as she became more acidotic, her urine output diminished, her mental status fluctuated, and her abdomen became grossly distended and tympanic.
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The distended irises could hardly be distinguished from the holes of the pupils.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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But over all and through all poured the flame of her -- the unanalyzable something that was fire and that was the soul of her, that lay mellow-warm or blazed in her eyes, that sprayed the cheeks of her, that distended the nostrils, that curled the lip, or, when the lip was in repose, that was still there in the lip, the lip palpitant with its presence.
The Wit of Porportuk
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The stomach was distended reflecting a gastric outlet obstruction.
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After many days I noticed my belly was becoming distended.
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Then, half suffocated, Vogotzine flung the paper on the floor; and, with eyes distended with horror, drawing the caraffe of kummel toward him, he half emptied it, drinking glass after glass to recover his self-control.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The experiments identified a previously uncharacterized gene as essential for intoxication by diphtheria toxin and exotoxin A toxicity, and a cell surface protein needed for cytolethal distending toxin toxicity.
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Also I'd just had a large helping of pudding at lunch and my stomach was bloated and distended, making seatbelt use out of the question.
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The majority of fishes have no lungs and of course no vocal chords, but certain species, such as the drumfish, are able to distend special sacs with gas or air, or in other ways to produce sounds.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
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In contrast, her abdominal region appeared slightly distended.
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It is certainly one of the strangest sights seeing someone's belly distend outwards as it is pushed from the inside.
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28 should be needled cautiously and superficially in those with very distended bladders.
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The gastric mucosa had distended glands that extended to the pseudomembrane with a volcano-like appearance.
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In the refugee centres we saw many children whose stomachs were distended because of lack of food.
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Arteries were distended and occluded by necrotic intraluminal debris, without platelet fibrin thrombi.
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Congenital hydrocele is of a cylindrical shape; and this is mentioned as distinguishing it from isolated hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis, which is pyriform; but this mark will fail when the cord is at the same time distended, as it may be, in the latter form of the complaint.
Surgical Anatomy
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Fourthly, the funicular process may become obliterated both at the abdominal inguinal ring and above the epididymis, leaving a central unobliterated portion, which may become distended with fluid, giving rise to a condition known as the encysted hydrocele of the cord.
XI. Splanchnology. 3c. The Male Genital Organs
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The plain abdominal films show distended loops of intestine with thickened bowel walls.
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The caverns distended the area of infarction, stretched pial membranes on the surface, and compressed adjacent, more normal, often central nerve fibers.
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George regarded him silently, his nostrils distending and his lean fingers unconsciously crooking like an eagle's talons about to clutch.
CREATED HE THEM
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The toxin - called cytolethal distending toxin, or CDT - appears to affect the nerve cells that control the muscles in the gut, weakening the "cleaning waves" and leading to the chronic problems of IBS.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Link Between Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Bacteria
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Distended finger and toe pads enable them to cling unerringly, leap after leap, to even the most slippery branches.
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His abdomen was severely distended, with liver and spleen palpable to just above the pelvic brim.
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The man on the right was only slightly taller than Tara, a beer belly distending the stylized pattern of hibiscus flowers on his Hawaiian shirt.
Rogue Oracle
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Adult novella, a hugely distended tale within the network of tales that makes up the book, 90 pages long, as benumbing for an adult to read as almost any story written for the Young Adult market, whose products are about as close to genuine fiction as megachurches are to monasteries where silence is observed.
Scientifiction
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There are the fubsy boys -- copied apparently from cherubim -- who, with glowing, distended cheeks, are simpering on the ceiling, _doing_ the tenor, with wide open mouths that would shame e'er a barn-door in the village; their red, stumpy fingers sprawling over the music which they are (not) reading.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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The sensation was one of blood distending the veins until they were about to release geysers of the dark red liquid.
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Powell's formalism is not only distended and sonic, but also the product of subtly tailored typography and syntax.
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The gas-bag comprises a single chamber for the inflating agent, the distended shape of the envelope being sustained by means of an air-ballonet.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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In this motion, the string forms a sort of conoidal surface, distended by centrifugal force.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
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Through this incision, the abdominal cavity is distended with carbon dioxide gas.
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He was huffing and puffing something fierce, distending his cheeks with every exhalation.
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I envision them as two goatee-stroking trainspotters with swelled, distended craniums, able to assimilate incidental music from any source into a perfect pastiche.
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‘Bad luck, Paul,’ she says, reflexively rubbing her sore, distended abdomen.
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Notably, the peritoneal cavity was dry and was not distended with gas.
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In April 2003, a young Kazakhstani boy was taken into hospital for an operation on his unusually distended stomach.
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He emerges from his hole and, stopping only to milk the distended teats of his goats, he returns to examine the print more carefully.
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Either she was about 20 weeks pregnant or her bladder was grossly distended.
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Ramsey was already dangerously distended, as an effect of the earlier part of her discourse, and the word "fastidious" almost exploded him; but upon the climax, "Dora Yocum," he blew up with a shattering report and, leaving fragments of incoherence ricocheting behind him, fled shuddering from the house.
Ramsey Milholland
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To the left of the cardiac orifice is the incisura cardiaca: the projection of this notch into the cavity of the stomach increases as the organ distends, and has been supposed to act as a valve preventing regurgitation into the esophagus.
XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
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After delivery the child was found to have a distended abdomen and a nasogastric tube was placed and 100 cc of bilious material was aspirated from the stomach
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Also I'd just had a large helping of pudding at lunch and my stomach was bloated and distended, making seatbelt use out of the question.
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Every month, for a few days prior to menstruation, the inside lining of the womb (what we call the mucous membrane or endometrium) becomes congested and its bloodvessels become distended with blood.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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The lungs contain tiny air sacs known as alveoli and bronchioles, the narrow passages leading to the air sacs which become permanently distended with air under this condition.
Natural Remedies for Curing Emphysema
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Homeopathic theory posits that the mechanical energy applied by trituration and succussion distends the molecules of the original substance, thus altering the fundamental nature and releasing its essential energy.
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A spherical shell of dust that falls to a gravitating body will become distended into a prolate ellipsoid.
A Dark, Misleading Force
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He was saying something to her while scratching his distended belly.
MAN AND WIFE
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Mr Palin to Mrs Palin, "Bristol's bristols are looking a little distended, what state do you think she's in?
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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Signs and symptoms of caecitis include a distended abdomen, fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and tenderness, and diarrhea.
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Physiologically this large drink will also contribute to some health issues, distending the stomach to twice its regular size.
Valerie Orsoni: Schifoodphrenic Nation
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It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent.
May I Be Excused? My Brain Is Full.
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Through this incision, the abdominal cavity is distended with carbon dioxide gas.
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Globeshaped jelly-fish as big as oranges, great cuttlefish bones flat and shining and white, shark's teeth, spines of echini; sometimes a dead scarus fish, its stomach distended with bits of coral on which it had been feeding; crabs, sea urchins, sea-weeds of strange colour and shape; star-fish, some tiny and of the colour of cayenne pepper, some huge and pale.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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This new pressure distends the ventricles, stretching surrounding nerve fibers and compressing the periventricular parenchyma.
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She found that the cat had been gorging on the food I left out and that her stomach was completely distended.
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During the procedure, air is pumped into the colon to distend it and make it easier for the gastroenterologist to see.
'Take a Deep Breath...'
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The history of the word "distend" stretches back to the Latin verb "tendere
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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It distends to accommodate any material that passes through the epiglottis, and it is the most muscular portion of the alimentary tract.
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In congestive heart failure, it is diminished because of low cardiac output and reduced arterial distending pressure.
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The doctor begins the procedure by inflating the colon with air until the cecum is distended.
Percutaneous Cecostomy Tube Placement
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The balloon distended to about five inches in length.
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His bandy legs are pulled up under the distended moon of his swollen stomach.
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The carbon dioxide in soft drinks can distend your stomach.
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When I returned today from the College, I was surprised to see a broad grin distending the adust countenance of the faithful James Wilkinson, which, as the circumstance seldom happens above once a year, was matter of some surprise.
Redgauntlet
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See their gills distend with the movement and the flurry of pectoral fins that give the subtle shunting manoeuvre.
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It's a distended medley of uproars, asinine taunts, genuine skill, charm, and self-indulgence.
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Of course, as has already been explained, the husband always has the advantage, that he can be brought to the orgasm by the insertion of the penis into the vagina, _after_ his wife has spent, if she arrives first, since her organs detumesce slowly, and their distended condition permits such action on his part, for some time after she has passed the climax.
Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise
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Additionally, there were a few children in the group with thin frames and distended bellies which I normally associate with malnutrition.
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The crypts are distended with yellowish-white plugs, composed of inflammatory exudate, leucocytes, and desquamated epithelium, and these may project from the openings, giving the tonsil
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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Varicose veins are larger distended veins that are located somewhat deeper than spider veins.
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She wore a narrow gown of pearl silk, the "surplice" waist belted high, and sleeves distended at the top by means of feather cushions tied in the armholes.
My day : reminiscences of a long life,
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As the patient is unable to aid defecation or to expel flatus by straining, the bowel is liable to become distended with fæces and gas, and the meteorism which results adds to the embarrassment of respiration by pressing on the diaphragm.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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When distended largely, its summit is raised above the pubic symphysis, the small intestines having yielded place to it, and in this state it can be felt by the hand laid upon the hypogastrium.
Surgical Anatomy
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Math1 is a master hub for the genes that control various parts of neural networks for hearing, balance, the unconscious sense of one's position in space called proprioception and in a new finding, interoception, which is associated with activities such as awakening because of a full bladder or a distended colon, said Dr. Huda Zoghbi
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Below them a sumptuous overspill of nasturtiums distends from the orange blazon of their open flowers, and then from the horned bright outbursts of their incipient bloom, to the citrine pallor of their unfolding buds.
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The abdomen was distended and the outline of the transverse colon clearly visible.
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The tummy is distended with a gas to make more room.
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Collagenous - collagen fiber predominates Depending on the amount of collagen fiber - subdivided into: a. Loose - also called as "Areolar tissue" - with numerous potential spaces which can be distended by fluid, blood or pus; found in the papillary layer of dermis, hypodermis, serosal linings of the peritoneal and pleural cavities, pia mater of spinal cord, endomysium of muscles, endoneurium of nerves b.
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Bizarre honey-pot ants, whose distended stomachs are full of honey, also provide a sweet treat.
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In a new study awaiting publication, Dr. Leung reports that pumping in water instead of air to distend the colon is more comfortable for patients, resulting in a success rate of 97%.
'Take a Deep Breath...'
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Notably, the peritoneal cavity was dry and was not distended with gas.
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His abdomen was crisscrossed with pale surgical scars, and distended.
Times, Sunday Times
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A very distended stomach is sometimes visible.
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Females develop an extrusion of the gonadal papilla and a distended abdomen when gravid.
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In the refugee centres we saw many children whose stomachs were distended because of lack of food.
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When my moose-meat spluttered rowdily in the frying-pan, I noticed old Ebbits's nostrils twitch and distend as he caught the food-scent.
The White Man's Way
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Math1 is a master hub for the genes that control various parts of neural networks for hearing, balance, the unconscious sense of one's position in space called proprioception and in a new finding, interoception, which is associated with activities such as awakening because of a full bladder or a distended colon, said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, professor of molecular and human genetics, pediatrics, neurology and neuroscience at BCM and Dr. Matthew Rose, an M.D.
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Her nostrils distend with the memory of cherished scents.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel
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“If no other man has slept with you and if you have not gone astray in defilement while married to your husband, may you be safe from harm from this water of bitterness… But if you have gone astray… may the LORD make you a curse and an imprecation among your people, with the LORD causing your thigh to sag and your belly to be distended.”
In the Valley of the Shadow
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He looked dapper in a blue suit, jacket unbuttoned, showing a stomach distended as if he had swallowed a basketball.
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Then she noted that its belly was distended, and moved slowly.
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In other words, put something into the lungs that will put pressure on them and distend them, and at the same time, be safe.
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In this form it is carried into the radicle by vessels appropriated to that purpose; and in the mean time, the fermentation having caused the seed to burst, the cotyledons are rent asunder, the radicle strikes into the ground and becomes the root of the plant, and hence the fermented liquid is conveyed to the plumula, whose vessels have been previously distended by the heat of the fermentation.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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While drainage of distended thecae and bursae by means of openings made with hot irons was practiced by the
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
