engorgement

From engorge +‎ -ment.

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).

From engorger (“to clog”) +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃/

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engorgement m (plural engorgements)

1. clogging
2. engorgement

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