Gestation vs Congestion - What's the difference?
gestation | congestion |
The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
The process of development of a plan or idea.
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 149:
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 gestation and congestion
is that gestation is the period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born while congestion is congestion.gestation
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation , just as I had been with his.