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distend
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So being it a live tissue it responds similarly in the manner of a sponge , therefore, continuous stretching and healing should cause the distensible blood spaces to increase their ability to absorb more blood, as a sponge does with water, and thereby increase actual size of the erectile tissue.
Some generalizations of the law have been proposed for the fluid flow in the distensible tubes [14], which is important for the realistic arterial systems, and for the flow of a non-Newtonian liquid with [mu] ~ [d.
This indicates that, although less distensible than those from the control animals, the trunks from the chronically hypoxic rats maintain a greater degree of elasticity than do the main arteries.
 
 
 
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