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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inflamed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mucosa
▪ Its reduction by vascular endothelium and infiltrating mononuclear cells was greater in inflamed mucosa.
▪ Discussion Phagocytic cells are found in the intestinal mucosa; they are heterogeneous immunohistochemically in both normal and inflamed mucosa.
▪ The vascular endothelium seems to produce superoxide in the inflamed mucosa, which would exacerbate tissue injury in ulcerative colitis.
▪ Necropsy reveals a severely inflamed mucosa studded with yellowish-green purulent nodules.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an inflamed left knee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
inflamed

decorated \decorated\ adj. having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled, monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed, raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne, enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume); crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested; embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled, ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly, ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid; inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled, wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled; tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out] Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.

Syn: adorned.

Wiktionary
inflamed

  1. 1 Resulting from or affected by inflammation. 2 Appearing to be in flames; as if made of fire. v

  2. (en-past of: inflame)

WordNet
inflamed

  1. adj. resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened; "eyes inflamed with crying"

  2. lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire" [syn: ablaze(p), reddened]

  3. adorned with tongues of flame