inflammation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Wikipedia inflammation (countable and uncountable; plural inflammations)

1. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.
2. (medicine) 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.
3. Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.

Hyponyms

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Related terms

• infection

Translations

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

Catalan: inflamació (ca) f. German: Entzündung (de) f. Hungarian: gyulladás (hu) Japanese: 点火 (ja) (てんか, tenka)

Manx: ard-lossey (gv) m. Romanian: aprindere (ro) Spanish: inflamación (es) f.

medical condition

Armenian: բորբոքում (hy) (borbok’um) Catalan: inflamació (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 炎症 (zh) (yánzhèng) Czech: zánět (cs) m. French: inflammation (fr) f. German: Entzündung (de) f. Greek: φλεγμονή (el) (flegmoní) f. Hungarian: gyulladás (hu)

Icelandic: bólga (is) f., þroti (is) m. Japanese: 炎症 (ja) (えんしょう, enshō) Korean: 염증 (ko) (yeomjeung) (炎症 (ko)) Malay: radang (ms) Manx: ard-lossey (gv) m. Russian: воспале́ние (ru) (vospalénije) n. Slovak: zápal (sk) m. Spanish: inflamación (es) f.

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French

Noun

inflammation f. (plural inflammations)

1. inflammation