| At fifty thousand feet, any gases trapped in the body expand to more than eight times their volume at sea level, swelling intestines, rupturing lung tissue, and distending the abdomen until it hinders breathing. |
| Lying on your back, breathe in slowly while concentrating on distending your abdomen. |
| If this rapid efflux and influx is obstructed then the pressure wave is transmitted down the spinal cord distending it below the blockage. |
| When the valves do not function properly, the blood collects in the superficial veins, distending and twisting them. |
| Surgical drainage of the cavity, to prevent pressure from distending it further, may result in improvement. |
| By that time a distinguishing element in his films was a total disregard for physical reality, as evidenced in the loose, elastic stretching and distending of the shapes of his characters. |
