The action of filling up; the condition of being filled up to an abnormal degree; an instance of this.

Medicine. Change in the function or (usually) the structure of an organ, tissue, etc., caused by a disease or other pathological process (now rare)…

intransitive. To flow back. Now usually Medicine: (of blood, gastric fluid, urine, etc.) to flow backwards, esp. through a valve or sphincter.

Physical pressure, strain, or tension on a part of the body; load or demand on the function of an organ or system of the body; an instance of this.

Abnormal union or adhesion of body parts; an instance of this, an adhesion.

Pathology. The fact of being charged with injected matter; injected or blood-shot condition.

Medicine. The more or less sudden loss of vital properties and consequent prostration of an organ through exhaustion of nervous and muscular power.

A turning inside out of a part; esp. a congenital malformation in which the bladder appears to be turned inside out.

Pathology. The condition of being turned inside out; esp. applied to a malformation of the bladder; = exstrophy, n.

Physiology. A condition of muscles, organs, or cells characterized by a temporary reduction in power or sensitivity following a period of…

an enlarged condition of the viscera.

Abnormal or faulty alignment, esp. of bones at a joint or of teeth. Also: an instance of this.

Medicine. A sudden, sometimes temporary, cessation of function of an organ or system, spec. the heart. Cf. cardiac arrest n. at cardiac, adj. n.compo…