MILK LEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milk leg mean? 

• MILK LEG (noun)
  The noun MILK LEG has 1 sense:

1. painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth

  Familiarity information: MILK LEG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILK LEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

milk leg; phlegmasia alba dolens; white leg

Hypernyms ("milk leg" is a kind of...):

thrombosis (the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel)