CONGESTION

congestion. congestion, a heaping vp

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CONGESTION. → General scriptures concerning Le 13:28; De 28:22

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congestion. Congestion, n. a collection of matter or humors

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Con‐ges″tion (?; 106), n. [[L. congestio: cf. F. congestion.]] 1. 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn. 2. 2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperæmia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.