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What is the adjective for distending?

What's the adjective for distending? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb distend which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

distended
distensible
  1. Capable of swelling or stretching.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Younger people have a highly distensible aorta, which expands during systole and minimises any subsequent rise in blood pressure.”
      “Krachie and company are arguing, essentially, that a belly of fat is more compressive than skin and muscle are distensible.”
      “It has an immense bill, and in breeding season its distensible gular pouch is olive to red.”
distensive
  1. distending, or capable of being distended
  2. Examples:
    1. “For Barthes, film animates the photograph, which for him is distensive and retentive, and draws the photograph forth into protensiveness.”
      “Basin fill sequences of the Horton Group resemble those of modern fault-bounded distensive basins and show no evidence of transtensive behaviour.”
      “Heidegger's insistence on the hyphenation of the word points to his sum upon the distensive nature of the human way of be-ing.”
distendable
  1. Capable of being distended.
distending
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