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n. The act of inflaming or the state of being inflamed.

n. A localized protective reaction of tissue to irritation, injury, or infection, characterized by pain, redness, swelling, and sometimes loss of function.

n. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.

n. A condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.

n. Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.

n. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.

n. A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with tenderness, heat and pain. It may be caused by exposure to any number of injurious agents.

n. Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence.

n. The act of inflaming; the act of setting on fire or of taking fire, actually or figuratively.

n. A fiery, heated, or inflamed condition, especially as resulting from passion, excessive stimulation, as by intoxicating liquors, etc.

n. In pathology, a morbid condition usually characterized by swelling, pain, heat, and redness.

n. the act of setting something on fire

n. arousal to violent emotion

n. a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

n. the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

"Injury and repair have already been briefly considered in their relation to the normal body and to old age; there are, however, certain phenomena included under the term inflammation which follow the more extensive injuries and demand a closer consideration than was given in Chapter II."

burning    combustion    rousing    arousal   

adhesive inflammation    parenchymatous inflammation    obliterative inflammation   

infection   

heat    passion    animosity    turbulence   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

infection    cancer    congestion    abscess    hemorrhage    lesion    arthritis    ulcer    disease    irritation