milk leg

Questions about milk leg

What is another word for milk leg?

It depends which milk leg you mean. In the sense “painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth”, the synonyms are white leg, phlegmasia alba dolens. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of milk leg?

WordNet records no antonym for milk leg. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for milk leg come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of milk leg

• Full entry for milk legAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for milk legWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.