engorgement
Example Sentences
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“The engorgement of the American vehicle,” as Gregory Shill of the University of Iowa has called it, can kill pedestrians and people in smaller vehicles.
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2022
If true, the rapid engorgement would solve paradoxes like why the heavens look uniform from pole to pole and not like a jagged, warped mess.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014
The first few weeks of breastfeeding may involve leakage, soreness, and periods of milk engorgement as the relationship between milk supply and infant demand becomes established.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
A woman who stopped breastfeeding suddenly is experiencing breast engorgement and leakage, just like she did in the first few weeks of breastfeeding.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
There is no engorgement of either lungs or brain.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
