distend

Object

• abdomen: Abdomen: distended, rigid upper abdomen, with absent bowel sounds.
• belly: The children were naked and some had markedly distended bellies.
• bowel: This pattern is similar to children with soiling problems who learn to withhold defaecation creating a distended dysfunctional bowel.
• bladder: For example, spasticity can be aggravated by sensory stimulation from a pressure sore or a distended bladder or rectum.
• stomach: Air is passed down the tube which distends the stomach to allow the doctor to have a better view of the gullet.
• vein: Apply a tourniquet to the upper arm to distend the veins and select the best one.

Preposition: with

• gas: Some of the blood vessels have collapsed post mortem and the gut lumen is often distended with gas.
• blood: If the heart chambers are distended with blood, the ensuing beat is much more forceful than if the chambers were initially empty.

Modifying Another Word

• grossly: This showed the stomach to grossly distended with a large food residue.
• so: We all saw her next day so distended that she was unable to walk.
• greatly: Several hours elapsed post mortem before this cadaver was frozen and the colon is greatly distended with gas.
• often: Some of the blood vessels have collapsed post mortem and the gut lumen is often distended with gas.
• also: With some systemic diseases the gall bladder becomes pale in color and sometimes also distended.
• grotesquely: Manhattan is grotesquely distended, with out of scale skyscrapers sprouting from the litter-strewn earth like gigantic metallic penises.