Crossword clues for engorgement
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 a blast furnace.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from engorge + -ment or else from French \nengorgement.
Wiktionary
n. The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid.
WordNet
n. congestion with blood; "engorgement of the breast"
eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
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.