There may be slight tympanites or a retracted abdomen.
In the beginning there may be tympanites, but this soon disappears, and the abdomen becomes retracted and the muscles drawn up into knots.
The abdomen is often at first hard and retracted from spasmodic contraction of the abdominal muscles, but later it usually becomes tympanitic, sometimes to an extreme degree.
The omentum was greatly thickened and retracted into a firm mass (or roll), which extended somewhat obliquely across the body, more to the left than to the right.
He might have stated that he not only retracted his charge against Dr Westcott, but also withdrew his own interpretation of the passage.
This tongue is covered with sticky saliva and is capable of being protruded and retracted with lightning rapidity.
The insect too was scared nearly out of its wits, and did what most frightened insects do, that is to say, retracted its legs and remained perfectly motionless.
He discovered that the "tongue is an unruly member" as heretracted the smarting organ.
The origins of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles require to be detached from the tibia, and then the knee is to be flexed and the foot extended, so as to allow these muscles to be retracted from the plane of the vessels.
The external margin of the wound, including the middle branch of the sciatic nerve, should be retracted outwards, so as to ensure the safety of that nerve, while room is gained for making the deeper incisions.
As the Patent substantially retracted the Persecuting Edict and restored the Vaudois to all their former privileges, nothing more was to be done.
Why, in truth, should I not bear gently the deprivation of sight, when I may hope that it is not so much lost as revoked and retracted inwards, for the sharpening rather than the blunting of my mental edge?
But what was that scarlet knob that we saw protruded and retracted but now?
I will light a bonfire when it is dark at the White Gate," he said, as he retracted himself into the dusk.
Then he ratherretracted himself, serpentwise, then betook him in Christian fashion down the stair, and we heard him move out amid a babel of servatorial recriminations into the outer yard.
Holy See with the guilt of the unholy schism between church and state; but in the following year he retracted whatever in his writings the pope regarded as opposed to the faith, morals, and discipline of the Catholic church.
At last he retracted all that he had said and written.
But although a number of the Knights, including the Grand Master, now retracted their admissions, some damning confessions were again forthcoming.
He retracted on his death-bed all his arbitrary measures, and conceded to the people the tardy restoration of their ancient constitution.
The tongue was missing for about one-third its length, and was thicker than natural and retracted on the hyoid bone.
The mouth of the vessel was retracted so far as to render ligature impossible, and the poor man was abandoned to what was considered an inevitable fate by his unenlightened attendants.
Gluck has induced reproduction of lost tendons by grafting them with cat-gut, and according to Ashhurst, Peyrot has filled the gaps in retracted tendons by transplanting tendons, taken in one case from a dog, and in another from a cat.
By the laryngoscope he was enabled to observe a paroxysm in a woman, in which the tongue retracted and impinged on the epiglottis, but quickly recovered its position.
The skin over the knee could be extended half a yard, and when it retracted to its normal position it was not in folds.
The scrotum on that side had retracted until it had almost disappeared; the right external ring was very patent, and the finger could be passed up in the inguinal canal; there was no impulse on coughing and no tendency to hernia.
They climbed to five thousand feet, and then the driver nosed his vehicle up, cut his propeller and retracted it, and fired his rocket, aiming toward downtown Manhattan.
Later, my wife fully retractedwhat she said in that letter," continued Val.
Raoul, too, sees the error now, and therefore retractedhis words.
Yes; the insult as well as the challenge has been retracted in due form.
So serious was his objection deemed, that a deputation was appointed to explain the principles on which Government had acted, and thus convince Mr. Eliot, which they did so effectually that he retracted his censure in his next sermon.
The most characteristic feature is the presence of four short tentacle-like processes which can be protracted and retracted from the oral region.
Some are long and sharp-pointed and adapted for piercing; others are short, cylindrical, usually retracted and capitate, adapted for sucking.
Afterwards she retracted this admission and said that Margaret had really afflicted her, but that she was under a spell when asked and could not confess.
It is an equally obscure point why the corners of the mouth are retracted and the upper lip raised during ordinary laughter.
If an ill-tempered horse in a stall is inclined to kick backwards, his ears are retracted from habit, though he has no intention or power to bite.
If a dog only snarls at another, the lip is generally retracted on one side alone, namely towards his enemy.
Mr. Nicol has likewise described to me two cases of insane patients, whose lips are retracted during paroxysms of rage.
The expression which I wish here to consider differs but little from that already described, when the lips are retracted and the grinning teeth exposed.
But as a full volume of sound has to be poured forth, the orifice of the mouth must be large; and it is perhaps to gain this end that the corners are retracted and the upper lip raised.
The mouth is widely opened with the lips retractedin a peculiar manner, which causes it to assume a squarish form; the gums or teeth being more or less exposed.
The lips are then kept joined or almost joined, but one corner of the mouth is retracted on the side towards the derided person; and this drawing back of the corner is part of a true sneer.
She screamed loudly with widely open mouth, the lips being retracted so that the teeth were fully exposed.
The adherent feet are retracted within the rather opaque anterior part of the shell.
But it is heresy if heresy ever was, besides being a blow at the heart of Catholic sacerdotalism; and Abailard on condemnation retracted it as he did his other Pelagian errors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retracted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abandoned; forgone; forsworn; released; relinquished; renounced; waived
