It is frequently difficult to prevent the patient from over-distending the stomach, and thus impairing the tone of the muscular coats and prolonging the process of digestion.
In these cases the vessels of the affected part are distended with stagnant blood, and a portion of the fluid passes through their walls, distending the surrounding tissues, which become more or less hardened.
In the other the resisting force bears too great a proportion to the distending force, and preternatural contraction is the consequence.
In the one case the distending force bears too great a proportion to the resisting force; and preternatural distention is the consequence.
Suppose then the thorax to be in its least state; if it become larger, a vacuum will be formed, into which the external air will descend by its weight, filling and distending the vesicles of the lungs.
As is perfectly evident, the film in stretching does so by distending from a flat surface to a curved or cup-like surface.
If the pressure tube is calibrated in cubic centimeters reckoned from a flat surface where the film was introduced, the stretch of the paint film in distending from a flat surface to a curved surface may be determined.
He once more saw the bombdistending the tool-bag, which lack of work had emptied and rendered useless.
As for Charles, a living portrait of his father, he was now in all the strength of his six and twentieth year, with splendid muscles distending his white skin, and a full face barred by a heavy black moustache.
He did not expect that one of such wretched aspect, with what seemed to be a hunk of bread distending his old ragged jacket, would enter and seat himself at one of the cafe's little tables amidst the warm gaiety of the lamps.
The intestine loses its tonicity; it no longer has power to contract upon or to expel its contents; it becomes paralysed, and the dung consequently accumulates within it, distending it, and adding to its weakness by constant tension.
In the ox this is especially common as a collection in the sheath, distending that into a soft, doughy swelling.
In some respects simpler and more easily controlled is the method of {550} distending the stomach by injecting air into it through a stomach-tube, as recommended by Runeberg.
Another collection of calculi removed from a closed gall-bladder contains 45, of large size, distending the organ and forming a tumor which projected beyond the margin of the liver.
When food is retained it causes much distress, gases of decomposition accumulate, distending the stomach and giving prominence to the epigastrium, and eructations of offensive gas, with some acid liquid, occur from time to time.
A manifest contraindication to distension of the stomach or of the colon with gas exists if there is a suspicion that the coats of these parts are so thinned by ulceration that they might rupture from the distending force of the gas.
Decomposition sets in and gas is developed, which by distending the bowel causes great suffering and increases the inflammation.
Much is also received into the stomach, and the whole body becomes heavier by the difference between the weight of the air originally distending these cavities, and that of the fluid which now fills them.
The result of decomposition is the generation of gas, distending the cellular tissues and all the cavities, and giving the puffed appearance which is so horrible.
She poured out half a glass for herself and drank the cognac off at a draught, distendingher thin nostrils wide.
But she grew quiet by herself and wrathfully walked away with distending nostrils and with fire in the darkened, handsome eyes.
In all these four birds, therefore, we have a nuptial habit of distending the jaws, side by side with a brilliant or pleasing coloration of the region which, by such action, is exhibited.
But everywhere was a confusing sameness, everywhere the aspiring bushes, the distending fungi, the dwindling snow banks, steadily and inevitably changed.
Ever and again one of the bladder fungi, bulging and distending under the sun, loomed upon us.
In this practical manner is constructed the back part of the works, which contains the bellows, their frames, the mechanism for compressing the bellows, and the instrument for distending them, of all of which I will speak hereafter.
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