congestive
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Over time, this can weaken the heart and contribute to congestive heart failure.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
“To Absent Friends” draws its title from a favorite Welty toast, a gesture that surely acquired special poignancy after Lyell died of congestive heart failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
DeJohnette’s wife, Lydia, told NPR the cause was congestive heart failure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
His personal assistant Joan Clancy confirmed that he died on Sunday from congestive heart failure in Kingston Hospital, New York state.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
A second is malignant fever, and a third is congestive fever, neither of which has claimed many victims in the health reports of Philadelphia except while meningitis was epidemic.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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