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Example Sentences
- Barium sulfate is used to distend the hollow digestive organs so they can be seen in the images produced by the scan.
- The mainliner also requires a tourniquet of some sort to distend veins.
- To make it easier to see and manipulate tissues, a salt solution is injected into the joint to distend it.
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