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Word: congestion (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An excess of traffic.
  • medicine An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
  • medicine Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
  • The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.

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