distensileadj.
/dɪˈstɛnsʌɪl//dɪˈstɛnsɪl/ = distensible adj. Also, capable of distending or causing distension.
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stretchable1398
extensible1611
extensive1612
tensible1626
tensile1626
reaching1651
distendible1673
extendible1693
distractile1709
distensile1739
extensile1744
elastic1781
distensible1828
distensive1836
stretchy1854
stretching1897
two-way stretch1932
1739 A. Stuart Three Lect. Muscular Motion iii. 48 Carried on in extensile and distensile blood-vessels.
1739 A. Stuart in Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 p. xxvii If the vessel be distensile, it will distend it.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 337 Over the whole of this tumour could be felt well-marked distensile pulsation.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 560/2 As a result of these fibrous changes there is interference with the blood current, since the vessels become unyielding yet frangible, instead of distensile and elastic, tubes.
1907 Practitioner Nov. 621 This distensile force would have been amply sufficient to cause dilatation of the ventricular cavity.
1910 Practitioner Apr. 482 Forcible inflation under pressure may also be done by compressing the india-rubber tube between the distensile bulb and the proximal glass tube.
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