become distended
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Onik says it works only for a "contained" rupture -- a disk that has become distended but has not yet broken through the fibers that hold its contents in place.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the contrary, says Lapides, it causes the bladder to become distended, with its walls taut and blood circulation diminished.
From Time Magazine Archive
The suction tube was left in to draw off gas lest he become distended and disrupt his wound.
From Time Magazine Archive
When this large vaso-motor nerve is cut in animals anywhere in its course, the veins of the abdomen become distended enormously.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by A. Mueller
If it be answered: during the systole, I take it to be impossible: the arteries would then have to fill while they contracted, to fill, and yet not become distended.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
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