distensive
adj1
Distending, or capable of being distended; expanding or spreading out.
- distensive paralysis
- distensive opposition
2 more examples
- distensive headache
- —. distensive deformations in the Apennines and the Tyrrrhenian basin: behind the compressive front one may rapidly pass to distensive deformations.2013, F.-C. Wezel, The Origin of Arcs, page 313: