Crossword-Solution: DISTENTION
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| Distention | n. | The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. |
| Distention | n. | Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big.
Some cases are of purely nervous origin, associated with a purely muscular distention of the abdomen.
Laxity of the skin after distention is often seen in multipara, both in the breasts and in the abdominal walls, and also from obesity, but in all such cases the skin falls in folds, and does not have a normal appearance like that of the true "elastic-skin man." Occasionally abnormal development of the scalp is noticed.
Between the clavicles another pulsatile swelling was easily felt but hardly seen, which was doubtless the arch of the aorta, as by putting the fingers on it one could feel a double shock, synchronous with distention and recoil of a vessel or opening and closing of the semilunar valves.
After death, the distention of the abdomen was found to be due to a coating of fat, four inches thick, in the parietes.