What's the difference between bloat and distended?

Bloat


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
  • (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
  • (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
  • (a.) Bloated.
  • (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
  • (v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
  • (2) Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a disorder of gut motility resulting in severe abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, and vomiting after eating.
  • (3) Among those women who complained of side-effects, significantly more in group B complained of headaches and a bloated abdomen.
  • (4) Erythromycin also induced symptoms of upper abdominal pain, bloating, and nausea.
  • (5) Clinical parameters were: abdominal pain, bloating and bowel frequency.
  • (6) Moreover, the gass bloat syndrome seen with the Nissen fundoplication has not been encountered.
  • (7) In an interview with the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins in February 2014, when he was chairman of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, Whittingdale said: “The BBC is the most wasteful, bloated organisation on the planet.” He said: “Chris Patten [the BBC Trust’s former chairman] used to make jokes about the army of the People’s Republic of China being the organisation that’s the closest he’s encountered to the BBC: it is just huge numbers of people, many of whom don’t appear to be doing anything.” On Thursday, Whittingdale will unveil a green paper on the future of the BBC that sets a demanding agenda before the renegotiation of the corporation’s royal charter.
  • (8) Infected patients were more likely to complain of abdominal bloating.
  • (9) After this operation symptoms such as dysphagia, inability to belch and vomit, and gas bloating are frequently reported in the literature.
  • (10) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
  • (11) Almost all adverse experiences, as reported by 56 to 76% of patients on acarbose vs 32 to 37% of patients on placebo, were related to the digestive system and included diarrhoea, flatulence, bloating and nausea.
  • (12) The goats vagotomized dorsally showed an increase in body weight and decrease in volume of feces accompanied with repeated bloat.
  • (13) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
  • (14) Anti-frothing agents were used in sheep before cattle to treat acute legume bloat.
  • (15) The use of wood-fire smoke for bloating Trachurus did not change its nitrosoamines content at all.
  • (16) Among the improved patients, one experienced a transient gas-bloat syndrome.
  • (17) Instead of displaying an intense fear of obesity and a distorted body image, patients more commonly attributed poor food intake to abdominal bloating.
  • (18) James Criswell said he appreciated Carson’s goal of eliminating “a bunch of government bloated spending”.
  • (19) All the current evidence accumulated from experiments with sheep supports the hypothesis that death due to legume bloat is caused by acute neural, respiratory, and cardiovascular insult resulting from the effect of the distended rumen on thoracic viscera, diaphragm, intercostal muscles, and the abdominal vena cava.
  • (20) Microbial and fermentation changes in the rumen in monensin- and lasalocid-fed cattle grazing bloat-provocative alfalfa pasture were studied using genetically bloat-susceptible, ruminally-cannulated adult cattle.

Distended


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Distend

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
  • (2) The epididymis appeared distended but without any visible sperms.
  • (3) In a noncontracting in vitro preparation of combined right and left atria we demonstrated by electron microscopy that, at 37 degrees C, transition from zero pressure to a physiological distending pressure of 5.1 mm Hg rapidly rendered atrial endocardial endothelium permeable to the macromolecular probes horseradish peroxidase (HRP; M(r), approximately 40,000) and wheat germ agglutinin-HRP (M(r), approximately 70,000); each probe was introduced at the atrial cavitary endocardial surface.
  • (4) However, separation of the capsule from the bony glenoid can be detected if a joint effusion is present to adequately distend the joint.
  • (5) The surgical treatment was ligation of the distended vein immediately distal to the fistula in the hand, and fistula function was preserved.
  • (6) Eight 'normal' gallbladders and six distended gallbladders from patients with carcinomatous obstruction of the common bile duct were examined.
  • (7) Immediately after the perforation, the patient entered into vascular collapse and respiratory distress, with a distended abdomen.
  • (8) As the mosquito ingests blood, sensory information from the distending abdomen reaches the mid gut via the nerve cord, brain and stomatogastric system.
  • (9) Chains of low-amplitude contractions (repeated small deviations from base line) were detected before parturition was induced, and these were more common at distended parts of the uterus.
  • (10) The rate of acquisition increased as a function of the distending pressure.
  • (11) Contracted and distended bladders incubated in 0.01 M sodium bicarbonate were compared to identical preparations experimentally incubated in 5 mM thioglycolic acid.
  • (12) Amplitude, duration and magnitude (as measured by planimetry) of anal relaxation elicited by rectal distensions were related to rectal distending volume (P less than 0.001).
  • (13) The periosteal fibroblasts of OI35 contained grossly distended rough endoplasmic reticulum consistent with the 53% reduction in collagen secretion by cultured dermal fibroblasts.
  • (14) Many virus particles were observed within distended cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum 22 h p.i., and matrices of viroplasm were found close to developing virus particles.
  • (15) In orbital surgery, distended and thinned extraocular muscles were precisely localized and preserved anatomically and functionally.
  • (16) An enlarged cervical lymph node contained many abnormal plasma cells, which were distended with immunoglobulin; this material appeared to be released into lymph spaces when the cells burst.
  • (17) Among 52 unit discharges observed, 36 (69.2%) showed that electro-acupuncturing "Zusanli" point abolished the inhibitory reaction induced by distending stomach.
  • (18) (n = 18) in the presence of a distended bladder and 7.0 cm.
  • (19) The pathogenesis involves the release of kinins, the triggering of neurogen reflex mechanisms by distending the jejunum, the massive flow of fluid in jejunal lumen, the loss of the reservoir function of the stomach, and, possibly, the pathologic release of gastrointestinal hormones.
  • (20) A controlled study is in progress to delineate the optimum distending airway pressures at specific inspired oxygen concentrations in order to reduce the incidence of alveolar rupture to a minimum.