In the female, the ovary is frequently the seat of dropsical accumulation to such an extent as to distend the abdomen very considerably.
The testis may have become morbidly adherent to the front wall of the serous sac, in which case the hydrocele will distend the sac laterally.
The stays or girdle which braces the loins of most women prevents the expansion of the thoracic apparatus, naturally attained by the descent of the diaphragm; and hence, no doubt, the lung will distend inordinately above towards the neck.
The direct pressure of a tumour, or of the gravid uterus on the large venous trunks in the pelvis, may so obstruct the flow as to distend the veins of the lower extremity.
Distend my soul no more, Loud as the billows when they roar, More dreadful than the hideous thunder-cracks.
The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form.
One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.
The disease is said to be very frequent in Japan, and its seat to be in the bowels, and that the acupuncture eliminates the air, which is supposed to distend the bowel.
Distend the part gradually by catgut bougies, which by their compression will at the same time diminish the thickness of the membrane, or by bougies of elastic gum, or of horn boiled soft.
Or lastly introduce a gut fixed to a pipe; and then distend it by blowing wind into it.
All the bones became soft, many of them broke, and the patient seemed to die from the want of being able to distend her chest owing to the softness of the ribs.
Introduce a leathern canula, or gut, and then either a wooden maundril, or blow it up with air, so as to distend the contracted part as much as the patient can bear.
The vegetable aliment in the first stomach of cattle, which have filled themselves too full of young clover, is liable to run into fermentation, and distend the stomach, so as to preclude its exit, and frequently to destroy the animal.
The long, cigar-shaped bag began to distend more and more.
The Comet was beginning to assume shape now, and looked like a real airship, though the big bag was only half filled with gas, enough to partly distend it, so that the cord netting could be constructed over it.
The pupils will see that the framework of a mixture must increase in size in order to make the mixture light, but it must be made very clear that, while heat stiffens any framework, it will not distend it.
This again allows the yeast plants time to produce gas which will distend the dough to twice its size.
While on the beach the hoary father stood, And spoke the murmurs of the multitude, We spread the canvas to the rising gales, The gentle winds distend the snowy sails.
The flux of existence comes first: matter and light distend time by their pulses, they distend space by their deployments.
In other words, women seem to be less often dowered than men with what Tyndall called "scientific imagination," with the ability to put together a whole in which the several parts are never permitted to distend a disproportionate space.
It felt bound thus to distend itself, even tho its theme might be far too frail for so huge a frame, and even tho the unfortunate author often found himself at his wit's end to piece out his play's end.
His very brain seemed to contract and distend as rapidly in the same awful proportions.
It is sometimes possible to distend or swell the flesh by utilizing a 1- to 3-percent solution of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, sometimes referred to as caustic potash.
Should the skin be too wrinkled to secure a satisfactory impression, consideration is given to the injection of the tissue builder under the skin as previously mentioned, in order to distend the pattern area.
They come hastening up and then, the smoke assisting, they distend and intoxicate themselves: behold them reduced to helplessness like the rich burgesses of the plentiful cells.
The presence of from three to four quarts of water in the body will naturally distend the abdomen and produce a little discomfort, but no apprehension of any harmful result need be entertained.
Again, as we have pointed out, the colon is a wonderfully elastic organ, and it would be an impossibility to distend it with water to the same extent that it is frequently distended by faecal accumulations.
This superabundance of fluid only serves to distend the stomach and impede digestion.
It does not distend the stomach properly, nor call into use its ruminating habits.
They will often distend their crop with young frogs, almost to the ordinary size of their bodies.
When the head has rotated, and presents at the external opening, or vulva, and begins to distend it, the greatest care is required.
As signs of pregnancy however, they are but of little value, because they are often produced by other causes that distend the Womb.
One of the most remarkable properties of the Womb is that of being able to distend to an extraordinary degree, and then retract again to nearly its original size.
It may well seem that no pressure would suffice to distend these minute tubules, in which the actual replacement of carbonic acid by oxygen takes place, but that the air would either contract to a smaller volume or burst the tissues.
The alary muscles are often said to distend the heart rhythmically by drawing its walls apart, but this cannot be true.
If there has been delay, use a syringe sufficiently large for the contents to flood the urethra and slightly distend it, so that every nook and cranny is cleansed.
Stiff in denial, as the law appoints, On engines they distend their tortured joints; So was confession forced, the offence was known, And public justice on the offenders done.
Those breathing organs, thus within opprest, With venom soon distend the sinews of his breast.
Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.
They distend not only the muscular walls of the intestines and stomach but the strong abdominal walls as well, until the clothing worn has to be loosened for ease and comfort.
Distend and contract an organ for a short time two or three times a day, and it will gain in strength from the exercise.
The amount of water usually injected at one time--from one pint to two quarts--can hardly be said to distend the bowels at all.
