distend

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Distend and contract an organ for a short time two or three times a day, and it will gain in strength from the exercise.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)

M. M. Distend the part gradually by catgut bougies, which by their compression will at the same time diminish the thickness of the membrane, or by bougies of elastic gum, or of horn boiled soft.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Distend, dis-tend′, v.t. to stretch in all directions: to swell.—v.i. to swell.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various