MILK LEG

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth

Synonyms:

milk leg; phlegmasia alba dolens; white leg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("milk leg" is a kind of...):

thrombosis (the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel)

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