'Congestion' definitions:
Definition of 'congestion'
(from WordNet)
noun
Excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
noun
Excessive crowding; "traffic congestion" [syn: congestion, over-crowding]
Definition of 'Congestion'
From: GCIDE
- Congestion \Con*ges"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. congestio: cf. F. congestion.]
- 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper[ae]mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'congestion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amplitude,
- bar,
- barrier,
- blank wall,
- blind alley,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- bottleneck,
- cecum,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clog,
- closeness,
- compactness,
- congestedness,
- consistence,
- consistency,
- constipation,
- costiveness,
- crowdedness,
- cul-de-sac,
- dead end,
- denseness,
- density,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- engorgement,
- firmness,
- flood tide,
- full,
- fullness,
- gluiness,
- glut,
- gorge,
- hardness,
- high tide,
- high water,
- hyperemia,
- impasse,
- impediment,
- impenetrability,
- impermeability,
- impletion,
- imporosity,
- incompressibility,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- jam,
- jammedness,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstruction,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overcharge,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overload,
- overspill,
- overweight,
- plenitude,
- plethora,
- relative density,
- repletion,
- satiety,
- saturation,
- saturation point,
- sealing off,
- solidity,
- solidness,
- specific gravity,
- spissitude,
- spring tide,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strangulation,
- supersaturation,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- thickness,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- viscousness