About The Word Congestion
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Congestion
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What's The Definition Of Congestion?
[n] excessive crowding; "traffic congestion"
[n] excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part Synonyms | Synonyms for Congestion: over-crowding Related Terms | Find terms related to Congestion: amplitude | bar | barrier | blank wall | blind alley | blind gut | block | blockade | blockage | bottleneck | cecum | choking | choking off | clog | closeness | compactness | congestedness | consistence | consistency | constipation | costiveness | crowdedness | cul-de-sac | dead end | denseness | density | embolism | embolus | engorgement | firmness | flood tide | full | fullness | gluiness | glut | gorge | hardness | high tide | high water | hyperemia | impasse | impediment | impenetrability | impermeability | impletion | imporosity | incompressibility | infarct | infarction | jam | jammedness | obstacle | obstipation | obstruction | overbrimming | overburden | overcharge | overflow | overfreight | overfullness | overload | overspill | overweight | plenitude | plethora | relative density | repletion | satiety | saturation | saturation point | sealing off | solidity | solidness | specific gravity | spissitude | spring tide | stop | stoppage | strangulation | supersaturation | surcharge | surfeit | thickness | viscidity | viscosity | viscousness See Also | crowding | haemothorax | hemothorax | hydrothorax | hyperaemia | hyperemia | pulmonary congestion | symptom Congestion In Webster's Dictionary \Con*ges"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. congestio: cf. F.
congestion.]
1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
[Obs.]
The congestion of dead bodies one upon another.
--Evelyn.
2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood
vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing
other morbid symptoms); local hyper[ae]mia, active or
passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion;
congestion of the lungs.
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