milk leg

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milk leg

A painful swelling of the leg occurring in women after childbirth as a result of clotting and inflammation of the femoral veins.

milk leg

(Medicine / Pathology) inflammation and thrombosis of the femoral vein following childbirth, characterized by painful swelling of the leg Also called white leg Technical name phlegmasia alba dolens

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milk leg - painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth

phlegmasia alba dolens, white leg

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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