white leg

1. 1.

   painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth

   Synonymsmilk legphlegmasia alba dolens

   Broaderthrombosis

Questions about white leg

What does white leg mean?

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

What is another word for white leg?

Close synonyms include milk 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 white leg a common word?

white 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.