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congestible

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con⋅gest

  [kuhn-jest]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
2. Pathology. to cause an unnatural accumulation of blood or other fluid in (a body part or blood vessel): The cold congested her sinuses.
3. Obsolete. to heap together.
–verb (used without object)
4. to become congested: His throat congested with phlegm.
Origin:
1530–40; < L congestus (ptp. of congerere; see congeries ), equiv. to con- con- + ges- (var. s. of gerere) + -tus ptp. suffix

Related forms:
con⋅gest⋅i⋅ble, adjective
con⋅ges⋅tive, adjective
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congest 
1538, "to bring together" (trans.), from L. congestus, pp. of congerere "to bring together, pile up," from com- "together" + gerere "to carry, perform." Medical sense of "unnatural accumulation" (1758) led to transferred (intrans.) sense of "overcrowd" (1859).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

congest con·gest (kən-jěst')
v. con·gest·ed, con·gest·ing, con·gests
To cause the accumulation of excessive blood or tissue fluid in a vessel or an organ.

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