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The gas bladder is absent and the stomach is highly distensible.

Mouths are large, with distensible jaws, and there is no orbitosphenoid.

The aorta is an elastic artery, and as such is quite distensible.

It is a varying shade of brown in color above, and has tiny eyes and a large, highly distensible mouth.

It has a firm, stout body with a soft, distensible abdomen, and a short, broad, flattened head.

Sabertooths do not have swim bladders, and the stomach is highly distensible.

Females have large, highly distensible stomachs which give the ventral region a flabby appearance.

Second, we hypothesized that iron deficient arteries would be larger and more distensible than in iron replete controls.

With its greatly distensible stomach, it is capable of swallowing prey over twice its length and ten times its mass.

Their stomachs are highly distensible, allowing adult female whalefish to pursue prey otherwise too large for them to eat.

Peter, the snake, loafing contentedly about the carpet, found himself seized by what the Encyclopaedia calls the "distensible gullet" and looked up reproachfully.

The stomach is a small, 'J'-shaped pouch with walls made of thick, distensible muscles, which stores and helps break down food.

Females possess strong sphenotic and preopercle spines and a highly distensible stomach.

The long jaws of the frilled shark are highly distensible with an extremely wide gape, allowing it to swallow whole prey over one-half its size.

--A thin, distensible sack acting as a reservoir for the urine between the time it is secreted by the kidneys and leaves the body.

Saccopharynx is a genus of deep-sea eel-like fishes with large mouths, distensible stomachs and long, scaleless bodies.

Because it is a distensible organ, it normally expands to hold about one litre of food, but can hold as much as two to three litres.

Variations in vascular muscle stiffness change arterial distensibility, for example, when the arterial muscle contracts, the vessel is less distensible.

The varicosities are intimately associated with the periostium, are distensible, and vary in size when changes in intracranial pressure occur.

The abdominal cavity is highly distensible and may easily hold greater than five liters of blood, or more than the entire circulating blood volume for an average-sized individual.

The female's distensible stomach permits the ingestion of a wide variety of prey (lanternfish are a common catch), even prey larger than the anglerfish herself.

The Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes.

Monkfish, like most anglerfish are also characterised by an enormously distensible stomach, which allows an individual monkfish to swallow prey fully as large as itself.