| 单词 | distension |
| 释义 | distension|dɪˈstɛnʃən|
Also 7–9 -tion.
[ad. L. distensiōn-em, var. of distentiōn-em, n. of action from distendĕre to distend; perh. immed. a. F. distension (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The action of distending; distended condition; expansion by stretching or swelling out.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 239 If a horse..be weary, it is not safe to let him drinke..except he first stale; for in such cases followeth distention. 1615Crooke Body of Man 77 Able to containe or keepe downe windie distensions. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 36 All great Distentions are attended with Pain for a considerable time. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. x. §5 (1819) 160 Tubes..kept in a state of perpetual distention by the fluid they enclose. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado xxi. (1862) 215 The large sails..motionless in their distension.
2. The action of stretching longitudinally, straightening out, or placing at full length; extension; straining, racking. Now Obs. or rare.
a1625Beaum. & Fl. Double Marriage iii. iii, The rack has spoil'd her; the distensions of those parts have stopp'd all fruitfulness. 1671J. Flavel Fount. Life xxvi. 79 A..Reference to the Distention of all his Members upon the Tree. 1875Kinglake Crimea (1877) V. i. 230 The alternate distension and contraction of the line.
†b. Stretching asunder or apart. Obs. rare.
1624Wotton Archit. (1672) 36 Our Leggs do labour more in Elevation then in Distention. |
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