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Definition of Distensible

Distensible
Distensible Dis*ten"si*ble, a. Capable of being distended or dilated.

Meaning of Distensible from wikipedia

- exits via the urethra during urination. In humans, the bladder is a distensible organ that sits on the pelvic floor. The typical adult human bladder...
- Distensibility is a metric of the stiffness of blood vessels. It is defined as D = d s y s − d d i a s ( p s y s − p d i a s ) d d i a s {\displaystyle...
- food. The crop in eusocial insects, such as ants, has specialized to be distensible, and this specialization enables important communication between colonial...
- Compliance is the ability of a hollow organ (vessel) to distend and increase volume with increasing transmural pressure or the tendency of a hollow organ...
- truncus arteriosus. The aorta is an elastic artery, and as such is quite distensible. The aorta consists of a heterogeneous mixture of smooth muscle, nerves...
- careful observation may be permissible. The abdominal cavity is highly distensible and may easily hold greater than five liters of blood, or more than the...
- Perciformes. Zeiform bodies are usually thin and deep. Mouths are large, with distensible jaws, and there is no orbitosphenoid. Pelvic fins have 5–10 soft rays...
- region. Sabertooths do not have swim bladders, and the stomach is highly distensible. Evermannella are aulopiforms that have fusiform body structures, resulting...
- iridescence in life. The gas bladder is absent and the stomach is highly distensible. The transparent fins are spineless; the deeply forked and hypocercal...
- sinuses are enclosed in rigid dural structures, they represent a non-distensible compartment into which subarachnoid pressure increases may be dis****d...