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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inflammatory
adjective
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■ NOUN
bowel
▪ Tumour necrosis factor mRNA was detected in four of nine controls compared with 11/15 inflammatory bowel disease patients.
▪ This review examines the evidence that abnormal oxidative metabolism is of central importance to active inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ The possible therapeutic effect of a specific receptor antagonist in inflammatory bowel disease remains to be evaluated.
▪ The mode of action of 5ASA and 4ASA in inflammatory bowel disease is unknown.
▪ Nevertheless the absence of recurrence during long term follow up will be required to exclude underlying idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ New corticosteroid compounds with high topical and little systemic activity seem to offer great benefit to inflammatory bowel disease patients.
▪ Little information is currently available on the role of interleukin 1 and tumour necrosis factor in inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ For inflammatory bowel disease the morbid risk varies with age.
cell
▪ The prevalence and clinical significance of inflammatory cells in diseased tissue is controversial.
▪ The increased synthesis of the metabolite is probably performed by the inflammatory cells that participate in this condition.
▪ The inflammatory cells were absent in the colonic mucosa of Crohn's disease patients examined in remission.
▪ Mucosal inflammation was identified by the presence of increased numbers of acute or chronic inflammatory cells.
▪ The inflammatory cell infiltrate and its chemical products may influence intestinal permeability in various ways.
▪ The bronchial epithelium is hyperplastic and heavily infiltrated by inflammatory cells, particularly eosinophils.
▪ Eosinophils were not evident in the inflammatory cell infiltrate.
▪ Ketotifen may prevent the release of the inflammatory mediators from mast cells as well as from other inflammatory cells.
change
▪ The raised IgG1 proportion appears to be disease specific instead and not a reflection of unspecific inflammatory changes.
▪ With the viral reactivation, inflammatory changes occur in dorsal root ganglia and nerve roots.
disease
▪ A major cause of tubal occlusion is pelvic inflammatory disease.
▪ Pneumonia is a term applied to any one of about 50 distinct inflammatory diseases of the lung.
▪ PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis.
▪ The aim is to develop drugs for several inflammatory diseases, particularly respiratory.
▪ In patients with inflammatory diseases the pseudomelanosis coli incidence amounted to 2.3%, and in those with diverticulosis to 9.1%.
▪ Raised levels of circulating lactoferrin are seen during active inflammatory disease.
drug
▪ Among the available treatments are painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs, exercise, joint protection and surgery.
mediator
▪ Other differences have been previously described with respect to the generation of other inflammatory mediators.
▪ This is not surprising considering that most inflammatory mediators have been shown to be able to stimulate enteric nerves.
▪ The rise in eicosanoid inflammatory mediators may have an important role in the pathophysiology of the early radiation bowel reaction.
▪ The superoxide generated may have a direct cytotoxic effect or it may interact with inflammatory mediators to modify the inflammatory process.
▪ Ketotifen may prevent the release of the inflammatory mediators from mast cells as well as from other inflammatory cells.
process
▪ The inflammatory process was seen to extend into adjacent skeletal muscle and was consistent with a diagnosis of Riedel's thyroiditis.
▪ It has been reported that PLA2 activity contributes to the inflammatory process and promotes the formation arachidonic acid metabolites.
▪ Both local cells and soluble mediators participate in the intestinal inflammatory process.
▪ The mechanisms underlying the inflammatory process are poorly understood.
▪ The superoxide generated may have a direct cytotoxic effect or it may interact with inflammatory mediators to modify the inflammatory process.
response
▪ These three are involved in the inflammatory response.
▪ The inflammatory response influenced intestinal fluid transport partly via activation of the enteric nervous system.
▪ In the upper half of the jejunum they cause a noticeable inflammatory response.
▪ This molecule is also involved in the adhesion of neutrophils to endothelium during the inflammatory response.
▪ The entry of larval trichonemes into the lumina of the tubular glands generally provokes an inflammatory response together with marked goblet cell hypertrophy.
▪ On day 3 the nematodes reach the small intestine and on days 6-8 an inflammatory response in the jejunum is seen.
▪ Histological analysis showed that the size increase was not due to a local inflammatory response.
▪ Ten to 12 days after inoculation, the worms are expelled from the small intestine and the inflammatory response fades away.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inflammatory

Inflammatory \In*flam"ma*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. inflammatoire.]

  1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.

  2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
    --Burke.

  3. (Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.

    Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy.

    Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inflammatory

1680s (n.), from Latin inflammat-, past participle stem of inflammare (see inflame) + -ory. As an adjective, "tending to rouse passions or desires," 1711; from 1732 in pathology.

Wiktionary
inflammatory

a. 1 Tending to inflame or provoke somebody. 2 Causing or caused by inflammation. n. Any material that causes inflammation

WordNet
inflammatory
  1. adj. characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response"

  2. arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious]

Wikipedia
Inflammatory

Inflammatory may refer to:

  • Inflammation
  • The word inflammatory is also used to refer literally to fire and flammability, and figuratively in relation to comments that are provocative and arouse passions and emotions.

Usage examples of "inflammatory".

In worst cases, that can lead to organ failure, but it can also lead to other autoimmune diseases such as lupus, inflammatory bowel syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis.

In colds, fevers, and inflammatory attacks, warm sweating teas should be taken freely, and hot foot baths, or a hot general bath, employed to assist in equalizing the circulation of the blood and restoring the equilibrium of the system.

I know of twenty-two cases of violence against Fools, all but one of them a direct result of some inflammatory word or action on the part of the Fool.

Roosa divides the causes into traumatic, hemorrhagic, and inflammatory, and primary lesions of the labyrinth, exemplifying each by numerous instances.

Both she and Repasi knew that heat applied to skin caused contraction of dermal capillaries, and this forced blood to the periphery of the blister, simulating an antemortem hyperemic inflammatory response.

Russia and Sweden had been compromised, the mutual disgust between the czarina and the king of Prussia had gained such accession from reciprocal insults, ill offices, and inflammatory declarations, that these two powers seemed to be on the eve of a rupture, and each was employed in making extraordinary preparations for war.

In fact, a blind ophthalmologist is not much good to anyone, but it was up to him to inform the health authorities, to warn them of this situation which might turn into a national catastrophe, nothing more nor less, of a form of blindness hitherto unknown, with every appearance of being highly contagious, and which, to all appearances, manifested itself without the previous existence of earlier pathological symptoms of an inflammatory, infectious or degenerative nature, as he was able to verify in the blind man who had come to consult him in his surgery, or as had been confirmed in his own case, a touch of myopia, a slight astigmatism, all so mild that he had decided, in the meantime, not to use corrective lenses.

The inner bark furnishes a soft mucilage, which may be applied externally with healing effect to burns, scalds, and inflammatory swellings.

Late stage of inflammatory coughs, with expectoration of slimy, yellow or watery-yellow matter.

But I consider his modest and brief Essay on Bleeding in some Inflammatory Diseases, based on cases carefully observed and numerically analyzed, one of the most important written contributions to practical medicine, to the treatment of internal disease, of this century, if not since the days of Sydenham.

The human body attacks embedded foreign objects through sophisticated immune reactions: inflammatory responses, antigens, macrophages, lymphocytes, fibroblasts.

Holyoke thinks the more general use of mercurials in inflammatory complaints dates from the time of their employment in this disease, in which they were thought to have proved specially useful.

In fact, the records contained nothing more inflammatory than the statements of Jessie Misskelley, which had already been reported.

This tissue-salt can be given with advantage in the early stage of acute disorders, and it should be administered at frequent intervals until the inflammatory symptoms subside.

Herbert's wounds, covered with compresses and lint, were pressed neither too much nor too little, so as to cause their cicatrization without effecting any inflammatory reaction.