swollenadjective abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen` is sometimes used in combination); `distended wineskins`; `the need to clean out swollen inventories`; `the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked`; `huge blood-swo... Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974
increased, as in size, volume, etc.; expanded; dilated: the distended nostrils of the terrified horse. · swollen, by or as by internal pressure, out of normal size or shape; protuberant: distended wineskins; the distended arteries of his neck. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/distended