milk leg

1. 1.

   painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth

   Synonymswhite legphlegmasia alba dolens

   Broaderthrombosis

Questions about milk leg

What does milk leg mean?

milk leg means "painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth".

What is another word for milk leg?

Close synonyms include white leg, phlegmasia alba dolens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is milk leg a common word?

milk leg is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.