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Webster 1913 Edition


Congestion

Con-ges′tion

(?; 106)
,
Noun.
[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 hyperæmia, active or passive;
as, arterial
congestion
; venous
congestion
;
congestion
of the lungs
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Congestion

CONGESTION

,
Noun.
[L.] A collection of humors in an animal body, hardened into a tumor. An accumulation of blood in a part.

Definition 2024


congestión

congestión

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Spanish

Noun

congestión f (plural congestiones)

  1. congestion

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