distended
adjective uk/dɪˈsten.dɪd/ us/dɪˈsten.dɪd/
(尤指因内部压力造成)膨胀的
swollen and large in a way that is not normal, especially because of pressure from inside
The television showed images of starving children with distended bellies. 电视上播放着肚子胀大的饥饿儿童的画面。
His abdomen had become very distended. 他的腹部已经变得非常胀大。
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- The left side of his face was grotesquely distended.
- She had a painfully distended stomach.
- The distended blood vessels causing the facial redness can be removed with laser therapy.
- We saw the body of a man who had died two or three days earlier, completely distended.