How To Use Distension In A Sentence
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In abdominal disease the symptom is particularly associated with rapid enlargement of an encapsulated organ or distension of a hollow viscus.
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At the end of that period I had recovered, and all that remained from the effects of the bowstring was a slight wrinkling of the skin from distension, and the deep blue mark round my neck which I have just shown to your highness.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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I suffer frequently from indigestion, incomplete evacuation, passing hard, foul-smelling stools and gaseous distension.
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Does the patient suffer from nausea or vomiting, heartburn or flatulence and distension?
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A common presentation is failure to pass meconium in the first 24 hours coupled with a gradual onset of abdominal distension and vomiting.
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Right jugular venous distension was less than 4 cm above the sternal angle.
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The jugular venous distension was 7 cm, without hepatojugular reflux.
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I recall... the shocking distension and protrusion of the eyeballs of dead men and dead horses.
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As a bloated corpse swells and its distended belly explodes, sending guts flying and Booth retching, Bones does a happy dance: You rarely get to actually see a body rupture from distension.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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The duration and amplitude of rebound pressure increased as the distension volume increased.
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Local stimulation by distension along the body of the esophagus will elicit a peristaltic wave at the stimulus site.
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Hence, although we fix the vessel under distension, once the load is removed, the elastin will recoil and consequently have a tortuous geometry.
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These changes in perception of distension at the lower end of the gut seem to be mirrored in the stomach.
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On the emotional front melancholy, depression, irritability & inappropriate anger present themselves with the physical signs of abdominal distension and pain, gas, borborygmus, diarrhea.
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From this frame of body, such persons appear to have appear to have more prominent necks than persons in good health, and they generally have hard and unconcocted tubercles in the lungs, for the gibbosity and the distension are produced mostly by such tubercles, with which the neighboring nerves communicate.
On The Articulations
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Objective: Varicose vein is a collective term which describes the distension , lengthening and tortuosity of veins.
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Right jugular venous distension was less than 4 cm above the sternal angle.
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Inflammation—a red, hot, painful distension—was attributed to an overabundance of blood.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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CLD is characterised by severe diarrhoea, abdominal pain, vomiting dehydration, renal tubular acidosis, aminoaciduria, liver damage, lactosuria, cataracts and distension that appear soon after birth when the diet begins to contain lactose.
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In the articulation with which we are dealing, however, these last two symptoms are not easily detected, for the surrounding structures -- namely, the lateral and other ligaments of the joint, the extensor pedis tendon in front, and the perforans behind, together with the dense and comparatively unyielding nature of the skin of the parts -- are such as to prevent distension and fluctuation becoming marked to a visible extent.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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The reproducibility of the jugular venous distension assessment is low.
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Gastric or enteric distension then may cause a shift of mediastinal structures.
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These can help decrease distension of the stomach.
Leo Galland, M.D.: Acid Reflux: The Truth Behind Heartburn
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The method provides an accurate segmental measurement of distension of tubular organs.
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The validity of rectal distension measurements, usually determined with pressure-volume relations, is disputed.
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With increasing venous pressure, presumably due to passive distension of venules, the postcapillary resistance fell and the ratio of pre- to post-capillary resistance increased.
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The baby cannot consume enough milk to relieve the distension.
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Two days before admission he noted abdominal distension and began to hiccup.
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As collagen undergoes maturation and contraction, local forces give rise to further distension of air spaces.
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Retention of water and fluid in the abdominal cavity gives rise to local distension.
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Abdominal distension with a splashing sound like water, and accompanying dysuria indicates tympanites or ascites.
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Abdominal distension, delayed onset of bilious vomiting, and failure to pass meconium.
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This patient was a 5 month old male with a 5 day history of recurrent vomiting and abdominal distension, who now presents with a 1 day history of bilious emesis and passing currant jelly stools.
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Local stimulation by distension along the body of the esophagus will elicit a peristaltic wave at the stimulus site.
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Moreover, prior studies have demonstrated that esophageal distension may be perceived as pyrosis.
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Record the scores of abdominal withdrawal reflex(AWR) and electromyogram of abdominal external oblique muscle on colorectal distensions irritation.
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Harvey rightly denied that the arteries possessed any pulsific power of their own, and maintained that their pulse is owing solely to the sudden distension of their walls by the blood thrown into them at each contraction of the ventricles.
Fathers of Biology
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A patient with advanced right heart failure will have jugular venous distension, edema and ascites.
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Distension of the brachial artery during the cardiac cycle was measured as described previously.
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The risk of gastric distension or aerophagia should also be minimized by the careful positioning of the infant.
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the patient developed severe pain and distension
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In addition, fever, neutropenia, generalized skin rash, abdominal distension, and tenderness were frequent symptoms on his admissions.
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The clinical presentation of low obstruction is late bilious vomiting and generalized abdominal distension.
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It is commonly used for irregular menstruation, PMS, breast distension and lumps, leukorrhea, menopausal disorders, uterine bleeding and chronic hepatitis.
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It is often accompanied by distension and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen, acid regurgitation, and a thick and sticky tongue coating.
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Nausea or vomiting often accompanies the pain, which is visceral in origin and occurs as a result of distension of the gallbladder due to an obstruction or to the passage of a stone through the cystic duct.
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It is commonly used for irregular menstruation, PMS, breast distension and lumps, leukorrhea, menopausal disorders, uterine bleeding and chronic hepatitis.
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Yet, for abdominal distension, this figure was more than twice as high.
Times, Sunday Times
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After each rectal distension, the subjects described their sensation.
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It is a general principle of abdominal distension that one must treat the spleen.
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It is possessed of a power that must go beyond a mere fascination with its extraordinary distension of form.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, apart from decomposition, there may be, and very usually is, a generation of gas within the stomach, from the acetous fermentation of vegetable matter (or within other cavities from other causes), sufficient to induce a distension which will bring the body to the surface.
The Mystery of Marie Roget
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Enlargements which occur upon the summit of the os calcis, whether hypertrophy of the skin and subcuticular fascia, the result of injury or repeated vesication, distension of the subcutaneous bursa or injury to the superficial flexor tendon (perforatus) or its sheath, are generally known as capped hock.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Her neck was supple without lymphadenopathy, bruits, or jugular venous distension.
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The most commonly reported symptoms were distension and flatulence.
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Distension of the gastric antrum and fundus causes vagal stimulation, which results in the release of small amounts of pancreatic juice high in enzyme content.
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We especially feel the distension of the women's faces, arms and hand muscles.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
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There was no jugular venous distension, murmur, rub, gallop, thrill, or heave.
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The surgeon also instills fluid into the joint to provide joint capsular distension and achieve the desired 1-cm joint opening.
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Parital obstruction can also be caused by Ladd's bands, abnormal fibrous bands obstructing the duodenum, which can cause bilious vomiting and abdominal distension.
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When you eat a lot at one time it causes stomach distension, which triggers relaxation of the LES.
Leo Galland, M.D.: Acid Reflux: The Truth Behind Heartburn
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It must be remembered that over distension makes contraction impossible, i. e., tympanites is paralysis just exactly according to its degree of distension.
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The average horse that has been subjected to hard service on pavements or hard roads at fast work suffers synovial distension of bursae, thecae or of joint capsules.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Examination showed jugular venous distension and bilateral pretibial pitting edema.
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She developed abdominal distension, oliguria, acidosis, elevated blood urea nitrogen and creatinine.
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Other associated symptoms include bloating, distension, mucus in the stool, urgency, and a feeling of incomplete evacuation.
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Evidence that application of pressure prevents gastric distension needs to be established, together with methods for early detection of aerophagia.
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A patient with advanced right heart failure will have jugular venous distension, edema and ascites.
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After two months, the abdominal distension showed no improvement and bowel irrigation was needed.
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Occasionally the cysts cause pain because of distension of the liver capsule, and such patients may require cyst fenestration or partial liver resection.
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Microaneurysms are small saccular pouches, possibly caused by local distension of capillary walls.
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She had a 3-day history of acute-onset abdominal pain, vomiting, abdominal distension, and obstipation.
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The concern is that additional fluid would cause further distension and leakage of bowel contents into the peritoneal cavity.
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My stomach is agonised with a terrible wrenching distension.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cramping pain, little vomiting, constipation and obstipation, distension, loud borborygmi and little loss of electrolytes.
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These are inhibitory reflexes, excited by deglutition, by gastric distension, and by intestinal dilatation.
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When the goitre extends behind the sternum -- the _malignant form of retro-sternal goitre_ -- the pressure symptoms are due to the encroachment upon the limited accommodation of the upper opening of the thorax; the trachea especially suffers, and the pressure on the veins causes distension of the anterior and external jugulars and their tributaries.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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It treats decreased appetite, loss of taste, inability to eat more than a little at a time, bloating after eating, distension and general weakness.
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It is usually associated with noticeable flatus, belching, borborygmus, abdominal distension, or a combination of these signs.
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After a few hours of postnatal life, bowel distension becomes remarkable because of swallowed air and causes bilious vomiting.
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Neuropathologic examination demonstrated massive distension of the entire dural venous sinus system by dark blue-purple thrombi.
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(He looks off in to the distension of the hormone.)
Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
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With muscular pain, the pain sensation may be due to distension or stretch of the muscular walls or to transient ischemia of the muscle.
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They inserted a plastic tube through the fundus of the stomach into the mid-esophagus to enable esophageal distension with saline, generating elevated esophageal pressures to simulate a clinical gastric regurgitation situation.
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Esophageal peristalsis can also be excited reflexly in the smooth muscle segment (but not in the striated muscle part), by transient distension of the organ, both in situ and in vitro.
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All four studies of loperamide reported an improvement in diarrhea but no change in pain or abdominal distension.
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It was at that point that his abdomen expanded, little by little, darkening toward blackness as the distension increased.
Between Expectations
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Finally, certain internal physiological processes may be the starting-point of the afferent physical stimuli leading to erection; for example, distension of the bladder, and also of the seminal vesicles, and of the seminiferous tubules of the testicle.
The Sexual Life of the Child
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There was no jugular venous distension, murmur, rub, gallop, thrill, or heave.
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These are inhibitory reflexes, excited by deglutition, by gastric distension, and by intestinal dilatation.
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These changes in perception of distension at the lower end of the gut seem to be mirrored in the stomach.
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During this first seventy-two hours, she does not pass urine and her bladder distension only worsens, so I press a needle into her abdomen just above the pubic bone.
Between Expectations
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The surgeon also instills fluid into the joint to provide joint capsular distension and achieve the desired 1-cm joint opening.
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Direct injury such as blows may be the cause of synovial distension of thecae and the affection is to be seen in all horses that have done much fast work on hard road surfaces or pavements.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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They represent the rupture of subepidermal connective tissue as a result of abdominal distension, either recent or remote.
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However, where but moderate distension of the sheath exists, there is little, if any, bulging on the mesial side of the hock and but a small hemispherical enlargement is presented on the outer side of the tarsus, anterior to the summit of the os calcis.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
