Inflammation
[ɪnflə'meɪʃ(ə)n] or ['ɪnflə'meʃən]
Definition
(noun.) arousal to violent emotion.
(noun.) a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat.
Typist: Millie--From WordNet
Definition
(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 heat and pain.
(n.) Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.
Typed by Ewing
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Burning, conflagration, setting on fire.[2]. (Med.) Swelling and redness.
Checked by Aurora
Examples
- And yet, now, every day, the great red-hot stroke of horrified fear through the bowels of the son struck a further inflammation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She complained of inflammation in her foot. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was born with inflammation of the lungs, and of everything else, I believe, that was capable of inflammation,' returned Mr. Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If you've got a fracture you don't want inflammation. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Lady Tippins lives in a chronic state of invitation to dine with the Veneerings, and in a chronic state of inflammation arising from the dinners. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One which I kept alive was certainly in this condition, the cause, as appeared on dissection, having been inflammation of the nictitating membrane. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- If you had any foreign bodies in your legs they would set up an inflammation and you'd have fever. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- However, being afterwards afflicted with an attack of inflammation in my chest, I ventured to send for this Herculean Beauty! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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