distensible

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The bladder is a highly distensible organ comprised of irregular crisscrossing bands of smooth muscle collectively called the detrusor muscle.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The large lumens and relatively thin walls of veins make them far more distensible than arteries; thus, they are said to be capacitance vessels.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

However, they arbitrarily classed as adults all individuals 22.5 mm. in length or larger, having found individuals this small that showed the darkened and distensible throat pouches characteristic of adult males.

From Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog by Fitch, Henry S.

Upon this flexible anterior part there are four short but distensible tentacles.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

Its stomach is distensible in an extraordinary degree, and not rarely fishes have been taken out quite as large and heavy as their destroyer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various