It is obvious that his heart, where his wasted sulphurate hand is placed, beats too hard and presses his spongy lungs and the tumor of water which distends him.
The orb of its bellydistends and stretches its shirt like a crinoline, and shortens it.
As the head of the child descends to the bottom of the basin, it presses upon this floor, and gradually distends it, until the Vulva is sufficiently enlarged.
And sometimes, when the head is large, so that it distends the parts very much, the shoulders will pass cross wise, there being room enough for them without turning.
When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them; and thus irritated they contract as before.
Veins absorb the blood, propel it forwards, and distend the heart; contraction of the heart distends the arteries.
Sometimes matter collects between the laminæ, distends them, and, causing ulceration, discharges itself either into the anterior chamber or externally.
The effusion of blood, gradually increasing, distends the cellular coat, forming the cavity into which it is poured, and produces a tumour of a size proportional to the distensibility of the tunic and the force of the effusion.
The instruments introduced must be gradually enlarged till one readily passes of the full size; that is, one that enters the orifice with some difficulty, and fully distends the rest of the canal.
The large central capsule completely distends the medullary shell, and forces out by its pores numerous club-shaped herniae (fig.
The central capsule completelydistends the medullary shell, and forces out through each mesh a hernia-shaped process (fig.
The penis can no longer be protruded, the urine escapes in a small stream through the narrowing sheath, and finally the outlet is completely blocked and the urine distends the back part of the sheath.
Subsequently it becomes filled with yellowish, cheesy matter, which greatly distends the small air tubes and air vesicles (bronchopneumonia).
The arteries are always full and each contraction of the ventricle pumps more blood into them; this distends their elastic walls and sends along them a wave which gradually becomes less perceptible as it nears the very small arteries.
It early distends into a moderate pouch, about a third of the way down from the mouth, forming a stomach, or storage and churning-place for the food.
The evolved gas distends the bowel and weakens its contractile power.
Gravitation of blood to the most dependent parts in cases of long illness distends the vessels, and post-mortem hypostasis leads to the passage of serum and coloring matter into the meshes of the mucous and submucous tissue.
This process is called raising, because it distends the pores, and makes the fibres swell, so as to render the skins more susceptible of the action of the tanning infusions.
After this operation of slicking has been effected, he distends the endless band k k k, over the lower series of lantern rollers e e e, and round a carrier roller l, as shown in fig.
Another innocuous species, the Dasypeltis of South Africa, blows itself out, distendsits neck, hisses and darts at an intruder.
This pressure increases the volume of the cell, and in consequence water rushes in through the permeable membrane and still further distends the cell.
In some cases of injury and disease, the synovial fluid is secreted in large quantities, and distends the sac of the joint.
Thus it collects, distends the tube, and remains until removed by art.
Each time that it shortens itself, and when it consequently distends the part of its body which is outside the old skin, that part acts against the edges of the slit, and gradually pushes the old skin upwards.
If it even distends itself or moves, a small opening will be made in the dried skin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
