Meaning of CONGESTION
| Pronunciation: | | kun'jestshun
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- [n] excessive crowding; "traffic congestion"
- [n] excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
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| | Synonyms: | | over-crowding |
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| | See Also: | | crowding, haemothorax, hemothorax, hydrothorax, hyperaemia, hyperemia, pulmonary congestion, symptom | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. |
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| | Definition: | | The presence of excessive blood or fluid, such as mucus, in an organ or tissue. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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