(p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
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.
Bloatedness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being bloated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spironolactone was statistically significantly superior in providing relief from bloatedness (p less than 0.001).
(2) The delta scores for symptoms of depression, bloatedness and breast symptoms, and Gdelta were significantly reduced (p less than 0.05) on buserelin, whilst the latter significantly worsened in the follow-up months.
(3) In contrast to bloatedness and steatorrhoea the meconium ileus equivalent is a less well known gastrointestinal complication in cystic fibrosis and thus less frequently correctly diagnosed.
(4) The evidence from these studies suggests that diuretics, especially spironolactone, have a particular role in the management of the PMS symptoms of bloatedness and abdominal distension despite the fact that the underlying water retention theory remains in doubt.