Physical assessment will determine the presence or absence of bowel sounds, flatus, or abdominal distention. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Sharp division of the gall-bladder causes no pain, but distention, which is the gall-bladder's most common pathologic state, produces pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
For all these cases may be reduced by ordinary distention. From Wordnik.com. [Instruments Of Reduction] Reference
But all these cases may be reduced by ordinary distention. From Wordnik.com. [On The Articulations] Reference
To her, their hard distention was excruciatingly apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast In Bed]
Unthinkingly, she yawned, her jaw cracking at maximum distention. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
I pulled the assay unit from my bag and ran it along the distention. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
The other is by the contraction and distention of the midriff or diaphragm. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
I am confidant that the present distention can be resolved through discussion. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I asked her, and when she nodded I used my fingertips to probe along the distention. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
By this excess of heat it obtains a larger distention, and inflates the balloon more. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
Perhaps those only who are suffering from uncomfortable distention so relieve themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
He had stretched the elasticity out of them, and with their distention had passed his endurance. From Wordnik.com. [A PIECE OF STEAK] Reference
The inflation of "philosophy" vaunting itself is thus softly eased of its painful distention. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The accumulation existing in the colon leads to a sense of distention and uneasiness in the abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The bey turned to Aimée with a smile that was the lifting of a lip and the distention of his nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Bog spavin is an extensive distention of the capular ligament of the hock-joint by synovia (Fig. 48). From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Thus the trachea, while always open for the passage of air, admits of the distention of the food-passage. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
From the distention and apparent weight of the sack I gathered he had already taken in several tarsk bits. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
Severe exercise when in this condition may result in over-distention, dilation and rupture of the air cells. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
In similar fashion, the distention of blood vessels in the cranium give rise to the all-too-familiar headache. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
This latter possesses the power of accommodating itself to the distention and contraction of the muscular tube. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
If it strikes you, you swell up and die of gross distention, for the swollen body putrefies immediately after. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The use of water to produce suffocation was less common than the use of water to produce stomach distention to my knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition] Reference
Over-distention of any of those organs situated beneath the right hypochondrium, will obstruct neighbouring organs and vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Her body was covered with red blotches, from the recent racing of her blood, the excited distention of thousands of capillaries. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
The blood-wave strikes upon the elastic walls of the arteries, causing an increased distention, followed at once by contraction. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The earliest signs of meconium ileus are abdominal distention (a swollen belly), bilious (green) vomit and no passage of meconium. From Wordnik.com. [Pediatric surgery: Meconium Ileus] Reference
In every bruise the small blood vessels are ruptured, and the blood collects in the tissues causing distention, swelling and pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
It may be a sense of fulness or tightness, or a feeling of distention or weight, or again, a feeling of emptiness, goneness or sinking. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
I understood the discomfort from the speculum came more from pressure/distention which would seem to not be relieved by a topical agent. From Wordnik.com. [Performing the Pelvic Exam] Reference
With a good digestion, nearly all they consume is converted into blood, to the yet further distention of vessels already over-distended. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
This method of distention with glued substances is mild, of easy application, and is useful for many dislocations in many parts of the body. From Wordnik.com. [On The Articulations] Reference
Great weakness, distention of the belly, retching, hiccough, thirst, profound exhaustion, and death follow if the condition is not remedied. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
In 1944, Raoul Palmer placed his patients in the Trendelenburg position after gaseous distention of the abdomen and thus was able to reliably. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) update:] Reference
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