Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PLETH'O-RA, n. [Gr. πληθωρα, from πληθος, fullness.]

1. Literally, fullness.
2. In medicine, fullness of blood; excess of blood; repletion; the state of the vessels of the human body, when they are too full or overloaded with fluids. – Coxe. Parr. Encyc.