distensible
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The bladder is a highly distensible organ comprised of irregular crisscrossing bands of smooth muscle collectively called the detrusor muscle.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The large lumens and relatively thin walls of veins make them far more distensible than arteries; thus, they are said to be capacitance vessels.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Upon this flexible anterior part there are four short but distensible tentacles.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
The food should be adapted to the distensible character of the stomach and alimentary canal.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
What is said of the distensible character of the stomach and alimentary canal?
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
