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Distended vs Distent - What's the difference?

distended | distent |

As adjectives the difference between distended and distent

is that distended is extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen while distent is distended.

As a verb distended

is past tense of distend.

As a noun distent is

breadth.

distended

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distend)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
  • (biology) gravid.

    • distent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • distended
    • (Thomson)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) breadth
    • (Webster 1913) ----