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

The lungs, heart, and great blood-vessels are placed in and completely fill an air-tight, distensiblecage, which is most distensible at its base.

From The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene by Galbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)

She has made them soft and distensible, so that an apparent physical impossibility could take place, though it is often accompanied by intense suffering.

From Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English by Stanton, Henry

The walls of the right ventricle, being thinner than the left, are more distensible, and thus this cavity will contain a greater amount of blood.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin