Third person singular present tense of distend; stretches out or swells.
From Latin distendere (to stretch apart). The -s ending marks third person singular in present tense.
Simple words like 'distends' are the backbone of English—yet medical and anatomical writing relies heavily on precise verbs like this one to describe what goes wrong in the body.
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