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MILK LEG
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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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