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Congestion with blood
Answer for the clue "Congestion with blood ", 11 letters:
engorgement
Alternative clues for the word engorgement
Word definitions for engorgement in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from engorge + -ment or else from French \n engorgement .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. congestion with blood; "engorgement of the breast" eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engorgement \En*gorge"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engorgement.] The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting. (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. --Hoblyn. (Metal.) The clogging of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid.
Usage examples of engorgement.
Tests were performed to check for cardiac murmur, heart engorgement, subconjunctival hemorrhage, jaundice, asexuality, hip dysplasia, clavicle fractures, skin mottling.
By means of this ability to relieve any part of the system from engorgement, and consequent inflammation and its results, are we enabled to permanently cure a large variety of chronic inflammatory, ulcerative, and nervous affections.
Surprised and awed by her submission, he became poignantly aware of the engorgement of her breasts against him, the flush of her body full-length under him.
Diminution of the motions of respiration is attended with an increase of the amount of the blood in the pelvic organs, constituting an engorgement of the parts, called congestion, or inflammation.
Durner was their primary suspect because he was known to have undergone a circumferential autologous penile engorgement.
The—the engorgement and empurpling of his head are sufficient signs diagnostic, and I need not do autoptic surgery to confirm that.
Both those forms resembling priapic fungi and those resembling labyrinthiform ooecia were ceaselessly active, their colours flaring and fading according to their flaccidity or engorgement.
He was aware of a mental engorgement, passing through him to Jeff, as if he himself had swelled to the size of a small moon.