| Younger people have a highly distensible aorta, which expands during systole and minimises any subsequent rise in blood pressure. |
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| The thicker and less distensible the arteries are, the greater the load on the heart. |
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| Krachie and company are arguing, essentially, that a belly of fat is more compressive than skin and muscle are distensible. |
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| It has an immense bill, and in breeding season its distensible gular pouch is olive to red. |
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| Veins are thin-walled, distensible vessels with valves that keep blood flowing in one direction. |
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| As a result, the flanks are distensible, which is necessary for breathing and for the expansion of the body that occurs in gravid females. |
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| Once reaching the throat, food enters a short, often greatly distensible esophagus, a simple tube with a muscular wall leading into a stomach. |
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| The gallbladder is a pear-shaped, distensible sac with a volume of about 50 mL in humans. |
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| A barium swallow study revealed a normally distensible esophagus with no areas of abnormal contrast retention or extravasation. |
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| The walls are distensible, allowing the vessels to accommodate the stroke volume of the right ventricle, which is a necessary function equal to that of the left ventricle. |
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| The black swallower, with its distensible stomach, is notable for its ability to swallow, whole, bony fishes ten times its mass. |
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| Veins are highly distensible vessels and can stretch to accommodate increased volumes of blood, but capillaries are more vulnerable to increased venous pressure. |
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