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Engorgement   Listen
noun
Engorgement  n.  
1.
The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
2.
(Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion.
3.
(Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace.





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"Engorgement" Quotes from Famous Books



... blocked and the breasts become engored with milk, this condition being known as "caked breasts." At this particular time of the baby's life, he takes little more than an ounce of milk at a feed; so, beside the incoming engorgement of milk, an additional burden is thrown upon the milk tubes of the breasts in that they are not entirely emptied each nursing time by the young infant. When the breasts threaten to "cake," immediate steps must be taken ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler


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