congestion

English

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Noun

congestion (plural congestions)

1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
2. An excess of traffic.
3. (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.
4. (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.

Derived terms

• congestion charge

Translations

act of gathering into a heap or mass

• Bulgarian: натрупване (bg) (natrupvane) n
• Czech: nahromadění (cs) n

• Russian: скопление (ru) (skoplenije) m
• Spanish: congestión (es) f

excess of traffic

• Bulgarian: задръстване (bg) (zadrǎstvane) n
• Czech: zácpa (cs) f
• Finnish: ruuhka (fi)
• French: embouteillage (fr) m

• German: Stau (de) m
• Russian: затор (ru) (zator) m
• Spanish: congestión (es) f, atasco (es) m

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: congestione (it) f

External links

• congestion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913