Usually means: Swollen or expanded from pressure.
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  1. distended: Merriam-Webster
  2. distended: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distended: Collins English Dictionary
  4. distended: Vocabulary.com
  5. distended: Wordnik
  6. distended: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. distended: Wiktionary
  8. distended: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Distended, distended: Dictionary.com
  10. Distended: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. distended: Rhymezone
  12. Distended: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. distended: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. distended: FreeDictionary.org
  15. distended: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distended: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. distended: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. distended: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
▸ adjective:  (biology) gravid.

Similar:
swollen, bloated, tumescent, tumid, puffed, unhealthy, expanded, turgid, blown, overdistended, more...

Opposite:
contracted, shrunken, compressed, constricted

Types:
bloated, swollen, puffed up, enlarged, dilated, more...

Adjectives:
little, first, joint, wide, abdomen, full, more, fourth, whole, latter, large

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Similar:
swollen, bloated, tumescent, tumid, puffed, unhealthy, expanded, turgid, blown, overdistended, more...

Opposite:
contracted, shrunken, compressed, constricted

Types:
bloated, swollen, puffed up, enlarged, dilated, more...

Adjectives:
little, first, joint, wide, abdomen, full, more, fourth, whole, latter, large



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