engorgement

English

Etymology

From engorge +‎ -ment.

Noun

engorgement (countable and uncountable, plural engorgements)

1. The act of swallowing greedily.
2. The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid.
   • 2024, Jennifer Davidson, ‎Beth Shepherd, ‎Sunderarajan Jayaraman, Practice Long Cases for the Part B Final FRCR Examination:

     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).

Translations

the process or the condition of becoming engorged

• Portuguese: ingurgitamento (pt) m, engorgitamento m

French

Etymology

From engorger (“to clog”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃/

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Noun

engorgement m (plural engorgements)

1. clogging
2. engorgement

Further reading

• “engorgement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.