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Engorgement

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of swallowing greedily. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    congestion with blood wordnet

Etymology

From engorge + -ment.

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