Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A syndrome marked by weakness, edema and shortness of breath, due to the inability of the heart to circulate the blood adequately to the lungs and other tissues
WordNet
n. inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues
Usage examples of "congestive heart failure".
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.
Fields effect), cirrhosis of the liver, alcoholic hepatitis, degeneration of the heart muscles resulting in eventual congestive heart failure, bloated appearance, flabby muscles (including alcoholic's ass), chronic stomach inflammation (in extreme cases, bleeding ulcers), pancreatitis, anemia and other bone marrow problems, low blood sugar (sometimes leading to sudden death), tremors (shaky hands), seizures, paranoia, emotional and behavioral problems, and so on.
She herself would die in her sleep in Nineteen-hundred and Seventy-four - of congestive heart failure, two weeks before my own arrest.
Karen had just left, and had told Sara that Daniel was dying from congestive heart failure.