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Needle-like tools used to drain distended bladders are unnerving.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

The best course would seem to be -- and such is in accordance with the experience of the most successful stock-raisers -- to milk the cow dry immediately after the calf has sucked once, especially if the udder is painfully distended, which is often the case, and to leave the calf with the cow during one day, and after that to feed it by putting the fingers into its mouth, and gently bringing its muzzle down to the milk in a pail or trough when it will imbibe in sucking the fingers.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

-- [R.L. S.] {174a} This is an incurable illusion of my grandfather's; he always writes 'distended' for 'extended.'

Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Daylight sat tense in his saddle and watched until they disappeared, his breath just a trifle shorter, as if he, too, were in the chase, his nostrils distended, and in his bones the old hunting ache and memories of the days before he came to live in cities.

Chapter IX 2010

Jeanette was suffering from kwashiorkor, a micronutrient deficiency that causes swelling in the hands and feet, tooth loss, distinctive rust-colored hair and a painfully distended belly.

World Vision: Malnutrition Starves Children, Economies of a Lifetime of Potential World Vision 2010

Just because I think the authority of the Federal bureaucracy is distended well beyond its constitutional limits and that the states should assert their authority over the Federal apparatus does not mean that I intend to prosper at your expense.

Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

Just because I think the authority of the Federal bureaucracy is distended well beyond its constitutional limits and that the states should assert their authority over the Federal apparatus does not mean that I intend to prosper at your expense.

Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

She said several look malnourished, with distended bellies symptomatic of parasites.

At orphanage, supplies are low and water scarce 2010

According to the researcher's observations, the small pouch that had been the stomach was now distended into a " ... massive, food-filled sac ... " that filled most of the abdominal cavity think pregnant women.

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: Are Competitive Speed Eaters Like Pythons? PhD Judith J. Wurtman 2011

Jeanette was suffering from kwashiorkor, a micronutrient deficiency that causes swelling in the hands and feet, tooth loss, distinctive rust-colored hair and a painfully distended belly.

World Vision: Malnutrition Starves Children, Economies of a Lifetime of Potential World Vision 2010