white leg

/waɪt lɛg/
/hwaɪt lɛg/
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Other forms: white legs

Definitions of white leg
  1. noun
    painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth
    synonyms: milk leg, phlegmasia alba dolens
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    type 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
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