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distension
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1 distension
The act of expanding by pressure from within.
synoniem: distention.
Roget 194:
expansion;
increase of size
etc.
35;
enlargement,
extension,
augmentation;
amplification,
ampliation†;
aggrandizement,
spread,
increment,
growth,
development,
pullulation,
swell,
dilation,
rarefaction;
turgescence†,
turgidness,
turgidity;
dispansion†;
obesity
etc.
(size)
192;
hydrocephalus,
hydrophthalmus [Med.];
dropsy,
tumefaction,
intumescence,
swelling,
tumor,
diastole,
distension;
puffing,
puffiness;
inflation;
pandiculation†.
dilatability,
expansibility.
germination,
growth,
upgrowth†;
accretion
etc.
35;
budding,
gemmation†.
overgrowth,
overdistension†;
hypertrophy,
tympany†.
bulb
etc.
(convexity)
250;
plumper;
superiority of size.
[expansion of the universe]
big bang;
Hubble constant.
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Nederlands: dikte, zwelling, opzetting, opzwelling
2 distension
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, breaking point, bump, bunion, carbuncle, corn, cyst, diastole, dilatation, dilation, dropsy, edema, extension, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness, inflation, intumescence, lump, meteorism, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pimple, pock, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst, snapping point, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tension, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, wen, windiness ... meer laten zien.
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