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Characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
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inflammation
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE active ▪ The scan score correlated with all laboratory tests generally accepted to reflect active gut inflammation except for the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. ▪ This was characterised by moderate active chronic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of inflame, kindle, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed. 2 (context symptom English) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat [syn: redness , rubor ] the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inflammation \In*flam*ma"tion\ ([i^]n*fl[a^]m*m[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed. ``The inflammation of fat.'' --Wilkins. (Med.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Inflammation ( Latin , inflammatio ) is part of the complex biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens , damaged cells, or irritants, and is a protective response involving immune cells , blood vessels , and molecular mediators. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"excessive redness or swelling in a body part," early 15c., from Middle French inflammation and directly from Latin inflammationem (nominative inflammatio ) "a setting on fire," noun of action from past participle stem of inflammare (see inflame ). Literal ...
Usage examples of inflammation.
The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements.
A smarting, stinging pain attends inflammation of the mucous membrane.
Or you could be developing blepharitis, an inflammation of the eyelids.
The commonest form is that known as catarrhal jaundice, due to an inflammation or catarrh of the bile-duct which prevents the flow of bile from the liver and gallbladder into the intestine.
Pastor Crenshaw that one of the arteries by his heart was clogging with cholesterol plaque, along with some inflammation occurring.
It is thought to achieve this in several ways, including making platelets less sticky and decreasing inflammation in the arteries.
By decreasing the inflammation with steroids, you can often decrease the pain associated with the inflammation.
In paralysis it should be our aim to improve local and general nutrition, to relieve local congestions and inflammations, to produce absorption of deposited matters, and to force an abundance of blood through palsied muscles, from which they may derive a proper supply of nutriment, and to which they may give up the products of waste.
In this latitude there are persons who, during summer or early fall, are invariably attacked with acute congestion or inflammation of the upper air-passages, giving rise to sneezing, watery discharges from the nose and eyes, difficult respiration, fever, and general prostration.
People whose upper bodies are being irradiated sometimes end up with a radiation esophagitis, or inflammation.
Proper amounts of calcium help keep your joints free of inflammation and arthritis, as well as help your muscles contract.
In addition, Lassa fever often involves hearing loss, tremors, and inflammation of the brain, or encephalitis, as well as serious breathing problems.
The immediate cause of leucorrhea is either congestion, or inflammation of the mucous membrane of the vagina or womb, or both.
As a general rule, chronic inflammation of the stomach, duodenum, liver, and adjacent organs, imparts a gloomy expression to the countenance, at the same time the eye is dull, the skin dusky or yellow, and the motions are slow.
The preceding allusion to the complications of chronic inflammation of the liver shows the necessity of clearly distinguishing between the symptoms of this disorder and those reflected by the organs which sympathetically respond.