Left ventricular failure results in distention of the left atrium, engorgement of the pulmonary veins. 左心室衰竭导致左心房扩张,肺静脉充盈。
engorgement
[ noun ]
congestion with blood
<noun.state> engorgement of the breast
eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
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Engorgement \En*gorge"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engorgement.] 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. --Hoblyn.
3. (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
The Food and Drug Administration plans to meet soon with several pharmaceutical companies to ask them to stop marketing the medications to prevent breast engorgement after childbirth.
Women who choose against nursing their newborn children may have to get along without hormones and drugs that prevent painful breast engorgement.