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exits via the
urethra during urination. In humans, the
bladder is a
distensible organ that sits on the
pelvic floor. The
typical adult human bladder...
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Distensibility is a
metric of the
stiffness of
blood vessels. It is
defined as D = d s y s − d d i a s ( p s y s − p d i a s ) d d i a s {\displaystyle...
- food. The crop in
eusocial insects, such as ants, has
specialized to be
distensible, and this
specialization enables important communication between colonial...
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iridescence in life. The gas
bladder is
absent and the
stomach is
highly distensible. The
transparent fins are spineless; the
deeply forked and hypocercal...
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Compliance is the
ability of a
hollow organ (vessel) to
distend and
increase volume with
increasing transmural pressure or the
tendency of a
hollow organ...
- also
called an air sac or air space, is one of
millions of hollow,
distensible cup-shaped
cavities in the
lungs where pulmonary gas
exchange takes place...
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truncus arteriosus. The
aorta is an
elastic artery, and as such is
quite distensible. The
aorta consists of a
heterogeneous mixture of
smooth muscle, nerves...
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careful observation may be permissible. The
abdominal cavity is
highly distensible and may
easily hold
greater than five
liters of blood, or more than the...
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results in
reduced urine output. The
amphibian bladder is
usually highly distensible and
among some land-dwelling
species of
frogs and
salamanders may account...
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their ability to
engulf prey
larger than themselves, due to
their highly distensible stomachs. They are
closely related to
tunas &
mackerels (Scombridae)...
