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Definition of Congestive
1. Adjective. Relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid. "Congestive heart disease"
Definition of Congestive
1. a. Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
Definition of Congestive
1. Adjective. Characterized by congestion ¹
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Definition of Congestive
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Congestive
1. Relating to congestion. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Congestive
Literary usage of Congestive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History, diagnosis, and treatment of the fevers of the United States by Elisha Bartlett (1856)
"The qualifying prefix, congestive—is generic in its character; like the term ...
In this way most writers speak of congestive varieties or cases of cholera, ..."
2. A Treatise on apoplexy, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism, cerebral by John A. Lidell (1873)
"Case I. congestive apoplexy occurring in a young woman during menstruation ...
Apoplexy both congestive and serous, the result of intemperance and gluttony; ..."
3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of children by David Francis Condie (1858)
"It is the congestive form of scarlatina which constitutes the malignant scarlatina
of most writers. The suddenness of the attack, in the more violent cases, ..."
4. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"Primary congestive form. A serious complication. Persistent cough. ... The primary
congestive form may kill in from twelve to twenty-four hours or may ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"It is possible that this congestive venous diathesis might terminate in cirrhosis
of the liver, in nephritis, or by the production of ..."
6. The American Medical Intelligencer by Robley Dunglison (1842)
"I have never yet lost a case of congestive fever, though I have had a good ...
In your letter you mentioned the congestive fever that prevailed among us in ..."
7. Headaches: Their Nature, Causes, and Treatment by William Henry Day (1880)
"... the two States—True congestive Headache is of a Passive Character—Seat of Pain
and General Symptoms—Causes that invite congestive Headache—Good Living ..."
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