(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.
Distention
Definition:
(n.) The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.
(n.) Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(2) Thickening of the gallbladder wall, a subserosal "halo" of edema, pericholecystic abscess, and marked gallbladder distention were consistent findings in AAC.
(3) Using concurrent videoendoscopy and manometry, glottal and upper esophageal sphincter (UES) responses to abrupt esophageal distention by air injection (10-60 mL) and balloon distention (1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 cm) were recorded simultaneously.
(4) Thirty-three patients had sudden, severe, upper pain develop in the abdomen with distention from one to four years after the original operation.
(5) Quantitative analysis demonstrated a significant reduction in response to rectal distention with 20 or more ml of air (p less than 0.001).
(6) These findings suggest that in vivo intragastric titration leads to higher measured acid secretory rates than gastric aspiration because the titration method is associated with gastric distention and even small degrees of gastric distention stimulate gastric acid secretion.
(7) In each patient the initial diagnostic studies--plain abdominal radiography and barium enema examination--revealed generalized small intestine distention and non-specific colonic abnormalities, respectively.
(8) The results of these studies, considered as a whole, support the view that McCleary's osmotic postingestional satiety signal acts as an intestinal distention signal rather than by inducing thirst.
(9) Distention of the antral sleeve by hydrostatic pressure (3-25cm H2O) caused stepwise and significant increase in gastrin release that was reversible.
(10) Anal sphincter dysfunction was diagnosed by demonstrating impaired sphincter relaxation during rectal distention.
(11) Clinical signs were tachycardia, dyspnea, cyanosis, and marked abdominal distention.
(12) Their courses were characterized by significant early postoperative hemodynamic compromise, abdominal distention, ileus, fever, and episodes of late vascular instability associated with hypocalcemia.
(13) These findings, when taken together, suggest that ANF is increased in heart failure patients in response to the atrial distention associated with ventricular dysfunction and intrinsic renal insufficiency.
(14) This technique allows full internal mammary artery distention without the devascularizing effects of full skeletonization.
(15) This distention manifests itself mainly in the central areas of the lamina cribrosa and the disc, and usually disappears when the tension is normalized by surgery during the first phases of the disease.
(16) In the prairie dog model, gastric distention with acid (0.1 M hydrochloric acid, pH 1.3) and alkaline (10(-5) sodium hydroxide, pH 8.8) isotonic saline solutions both resulted in significant increases in sphincter of Oddi phasic wave frequency, amplitude, and motility index.
(17) The renal pelvis had no distention in either projection in 100 kidneys.
(18) During the study there were 874 patients, 477 (54.58%) suffered from diarrhea, 209 (23.91%) had bloody stool, 20 (2.99%) jaundice, 57 (6.52%) abdominal pain, 48 (5.49%) abdominal distention, 30 (3.43%) vomiting, 13 (1.49%) constipation, and 20 (2.29%) others.
(19) Intracerebroventricular administration of the corticotropin-releasing factor antagonist did not alter locus coeruleus activation by bladder distention.
(20) Delineation of the rectum and sigmoid colon improved in patients who received rectal barium, owing to distention and marking of the bowel by the predominantly low-signal-intensity barium.