congestion

congestion
    n 1: excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body
         part
    2: excessive crowding; "traffic congestion" [syn: {congestion},
       {over-crowding}]
    

Congestion \Con*ges"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. congestio: cf. F.
   congestion.]
   1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
      [Obs.]
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            The congestion of dead bodies one upon another.
                                                  --Evelyn.
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   2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood
      vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing
      other morbid symptoms); local hyper[ae]mia, active or
      passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion;
      congestion of the lungs.
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congestion

   When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the
   capacity.
    

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "congestion":
      amplitude, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block,
      blockade, blockage, bottleneck, cecum, choking, choking off, clog,
      closeness, compactness, congestedness, consistence, consistency,
      constipation, costiveness, crowdedness, cul-de-sac, dead end,
      denseness, density, embolism, embolus, engorgement, firmness,
      flood tide, full, fullness, gluiness, glut, gorge, hardness,
      high tide, high water, hyperemia, impasse, impediment,
      impenetrability, impermeability, impletion, imporosity,
      incompressibility, infarct, infarction, jam, jammedness, obstacle,
      obstipation, obstruction, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge,
      overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overload, overspill,
      overweight, plenitude, plethora, relative density, repletion,
      satiety, saturation, saturation point, sealing off, solidity,
      solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, spring tide, stop,
      stoppage, strangulation, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit,
      thickness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness