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Congestive   Listen
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Congestive  adj.  (Med.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.






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"Congestive" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Texas durin' of the War. I think my old master said we stayed there three years. My mother died there with a congestive chill. ...
— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration

... in the night air, and fall after sunrise. All who are exposed to the night air, which is loaded with the spores, suffer with the disease. The natives of the country suffer about as badly as foreigners. Nearly half of the workmen die of the disease. The fever is a congestive intermittent ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various



Words linked to "Congestive" :   congestion



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