distensive

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Adjective

distensive (comparative more distensive, superlative most distensive)

  1. Distending, or capable of being distended; expanding or spreading out.
    distensive paralysis
    distensive opposition
    distensive headache
    • 2013, F.-C. Wezel, The Origin of Arcs, page 313:
      —. distensive deformations in the Apennines and the Tyrrrhenian basin: behind the compressive front one may rapidly pass to distensive deformations.

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Italian

Adjective

distensive

  1. feminine plural of distensivo

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