Congestion

Congestion may refer to:

  • congestion in heart failure, a term to describe low cardiac output seen in heart failure.
  • Nasal congestion, the blockage of nasal passages due to swollen membranes
  • Network congestion, an occurrence in data networking
  • Traffic congestion, an occurrence on highways
  • Congestion pricing

Famous quotes containing the word congestion:

    “In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)