Usually means: Causing expansion or swelling outward.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. distending: Merriam-Webster
  2. distending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. distending: Vocabulary.com
  4. distending: Wordnik
  5. distending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. distending: Wiktionary
  7. Distending, distending: Dictionary.com
  8. Distending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Distending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. distending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. distending: FreeDictionary.org
  12. distending: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (distend)

verb:  (intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
verb:  (transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to swell.
verb:  (biology) To cause gravidity.
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