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What is the adjective for distentions?

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

distended
  1. Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
  2. (biology) gravid.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. swollen, bloated, tumid, bulging, inflated, tumescent, enlarged, dilated, puffy, overinflated, turgid, varicose, varicosed, protuberant, expanded, puffed, blown, prominent, stretched, engorged, bulbous, extended, turgescent, ballooning, ventricose, puffed up, blown up, pumped up, puffed out, pumped out, sticking out, blown-up, oedematous, bulgy, protruding, inflamed, tumefied, distent, aerated, projecting, pumped-up, filled-up, swelling, convex, dropsical, exaggerated, full, gibbous, filled, swelled … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The patient was pale with a soft, distended abdomen.”
distensible
  1. Capable of swelling or stretching.
  2. Examples:
      3. “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:
      3. “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
  1. present participle of distend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. expanding, swelling, inflating, enlarging, ballooning, stretching, lengthening, bulging, dilating, bloating, widening, increasing, tumefying, intumescing, augmenting, amplifying, puffing, puffing up, blowing up, puffing out, swelling up, blowing out, extending, broadening, elongating, growing, filling out, fattening, making longer, filling, mushrooming, protracting, drawing out, increasing in size, stretching out, pumping up, prolonging, pulling, making larger, pulling out, spreading, thickening, straining, opening, billowing, drawing, bulking, aerating, outstretching, making bigger … more
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