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engorgement

noun engorgements

  1. countable, uncountable The act of swallowing greedily.
  2. countable, uncountable The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid. 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

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noun the process or the condition of becoming engorged

Portuguêsingurgitamento, engorgitamento
Françaisengorgement

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@misc{engorgement_2026,
  title = {engorgement},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/engorgement},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}