congestive heart failure

1. 1.

   inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues

   Broaderheart failure

Questions about congestive heart failure

What does congestive heart failure mean?

congestive heart failure means "inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues".

Is congestive heart failure a common word?

congestive heart failure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.