engorgement

plural engorgements

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

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   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 inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).

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