Blockage vs Congestion - What's the difference?
blockage | congestion |
The state of being blocked
A thing that is blocking
The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
An excess of traffic.
(medicine) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
(medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
As nouns the difference between blockage and congestion
is that blockage is the state of being blocked while congestion is congestion.blockage
English
Noun
(en noun)- There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.
