Engorgement
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of swallowing greedily. countable, uncountable
- 2 eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation wordnet
- 3 The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid. countable, uncountable
"However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement)."
- 4 congestion with blood wordnet
Example
More examples"However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement)."
Etymology
From engorge + -ment.
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