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Congest   Listen
verb
Congest  v. t.  
1.
To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. "To what will thy congested guilt amount?"
2.
(Med.) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.





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"Congest" Quotes from Famous Books



... any good reason why you should dash back to Ireland because of this business. I always think that the worst row in the world would never have come to anything if people hadn't done what you propose to do, rushed into it just because they thought they ought to be there. They congest things ... they use up the air and make the place feel stuffy ... and then they get cross, and somebody shoves somebody else, and before they know where they are, they're splitting each other's skulls. If they'd ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... of alcohol on the brain of an adult is to congest it finally. Alcohol will sometimes congest the brain of an adult under the most trying and discouraging circumstances. I have frequently known it to scorch out and paralyze the brain in cases where other experiments had not been successful in showing the presence ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... cases is by inducing passive hyperaemia of the limb after the method advocated by Bier, and this plan should always be tried in the first instance. An elastic bandage is applied above the seat of fracture, sufficiently tightly to congest the limb beyond, and, to concentrate the congestion in the vicinity of the fracture, an ordinary bandage should be applied from the distal extremity to within a few inches of the break. The hyperaemia should be maintained for several hours (six to twelve) daily. An apparatus ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles


Words linked to "Congest" :   back up, gum up, silt up, clog, unclog, jam, close up, choke, block, foul, choke up, congestion, choke off, crap up


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