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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 lungsWebster 1828 Edition
Congestion
CONGESTION
,Noun.