The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congestive \Con*gest"ive\, a. (Med.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, from congest + -ive. Congestive heart failure is recorded from 1928.
Wiktionary
a. Characterized by congestion
WordNet
adj. relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid; "congestive heart desease"
Usage examples of "congestive".
When you walked down the steps you will have entered your subconscious being, where negative congestive energies were waiting to be released.
Thus your energy counterpart will be opened up, your vortices (or chakras) and meridians cleared, your congestive energy and unwelcome pressures released.
By dislodging congestive energies it takes the pressure off the major organs, allows the body to function and can instantly cure malfunction.
They also fail miserably when the audience is against them because anger, boredom or just plain lack of interest will cause the congestive energies to block even more and thus prevent the vortices from drawing in life force to stimulate the energy system.
They are used in the treatment of certain varieties of heart trouble, particularly atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure.
In cases of congestive heart failure, the digitalis medication is given in two stages.
Finding negative congestive energy and removing it with healing very often removes the physical complaint, but for obvious reasons, a healer should never give a medical diagnosis.
That morning when Jason had made rounds he had planned to move Lennox from CCU, but the man was in the early throes of congestive heart failure.
Despite strong medication, her congestive heart disease had increased in severity to the point that Jason insisted on hospitalization.
The funeral was long gone, but its congestive aftereffects still lingered.
Nora's uncle had worn one of these when he'd been in the hospital a year before, suffering from congestive heart failure: it was a pulse-oximeter.
The very early stages of congestive heart failure which had been slowing Aunt Vorthys down were due to be cured this fall when she received her scheduled transplant.
A man, seventy-one, the retired vice president of a meat-packing firm, the victim of congestive heart failure.
With lips and fingertips blue from congestive heart failure, everyone wondered how many more winters the old warrior would last.
He had died of congestive heart failure in April of 1995, nearly six years ago.