congestion

English

Wikipedia

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) n. Czech: nahromadění (cs) n.

Russian: скопление (ru) m. Spanish: congestión (es) f.

excess of traffic

Bulgarian: задръстване (bg) n. Czech: zácpa (cs) f. Finnish: ruuhka (fi)

French: embouteillage (fr) m. German: Stau (de) m. Russian: затор (ru) m. Spanish: congestión (es) f., atasco (es) m.

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Italian: congestione f.

External links

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