Prune belly syndrome can result in the distending and enlarging of internal organs such as the bladder and intestines.

The man in charge of ESPN's and ABC's pregame activities disagrees with my theory of the radical distending of the pregame.

It is the reciprocal of "elastance", hence elastance is a measure of the tendency of a hollow organ to recoil toward its original dimensions upon removal of a distending or compressing force.

Compliance is the ability of a hollow organ (vessel) to distend and increase volume with increasing transmural pressure or the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions on application of a distending or compressing force.

The copious food had forced Colonel Runciman to unbutton his coat, waistcoat and shirt in order to loosen the strings of his corset and the subsequent distending of his belly had stretched a watch chain hung thick with seals tight across a strip of pale, drum-taut flesh.

Naipaul, who once announced that one of the ugliest sights on earth was a pregnant woman, writes in the voice of the holy man: "That pregnancy, that distending of her stomach, that alteration of her already unattractive body, tormented me, made me pray that what I was witnessing wasn't there."

And now all the bellies were distended, because food was short.

We learned to cope with a town distended beyond its capacity.

It is distended to the utmost; now I am in!

He ran, bending into the run, arms distended at his sides.

A man ran past me, his face white, his eyes distended.

The skin was of a small animal, not identifiable when distended with water.

The summit of the ridge had now distended and was beneath his body.

I had to relax and let my abdomen distend under the water pressure.

I watched my stomach slowly distend to become a belly.

The hangar door, which distended into the street, was torn open in places.

She patted her belly, which had not quite yet begun to distend.

Carrie looked at him a moment, her eyes distending.

The doctors distend your abdomen, so they can reach in and pull it out.

She probably couldn't, not from the way those kids' bellies were distended.

Like the rest of Hunter's victims, his face and eyeballs are distended.

Martin's reputation was not limited to his business, but distended out to the political arena as well.

When she was feeling comfortably distended, she tried to sleep.

But the overalls were distended in front, as if they concealed a basketball.

I distended my nostrils, screening the scents of the room.

The gastrointestinal tract may also be distended in chronic cases.

The fangs became so large they distended the face.

She was breathing; I could see her belly, distended with gas, moving slightly.

Irrigation fluid is used to distend the joint and make a surgical space.

He knew what kind of distress, too: the air it had sucked in was distending its stomach.

His face was red and the veins on his nose were distended.