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Noun distension has 2 senses

• distension(n = noun.act) distention - the act of expanding by pressure from within; Array
is a kind of enlargement, expansion
Derived forms verb distend₃, verb distend₁

• distension(n = noun.state) dilatation, distention - the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions; Array
is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
has particulars: tympanites, ectasia, ectasis, varicocele
Derived forms verb distend₃, verb distend₁

THESAURUS

distension

bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, breaking point, bump, bunion, carbuncle, corn, cyst, diastole, dilatation, dilation, dropsy, edema, extension, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness, inflation, intumescence, lump, meteorism, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pimple, pock, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst, snapping point, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tension, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, wen, windiness

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distension

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.

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