inflammation

English

Etymology

From Middle French inflammation, from Latin īnflammātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnfləˈmeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

inflammation (countable and uncountable, plural inflammations)

1. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire.
2. The state of being inflamed
3. (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of 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.
4. (archaic) Violent excitement

   Synonyms: passion, animosity, turbulence, heat

   an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:inflammation

Derived terms

• antiinflammation
• autoinflammation
• hyperinflammation
• microinflammation
• necroinflammation
• neuroinflammation
• parainflammation
• proinflammation

 

Translations

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

• Azerbaijani: alovlandırma, odlama, alışdırma
• Bulgarian: запа́лване n (zapálvane)
• Catalan: inflamació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 引燃 (zh) (yǐnrán)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: inflamo sg
• Finnish: sytyttäminen (fi), sytytys (fi), liekeissä (fi) (state), tulessa (fi) (state)
• Galician: inflamación (gl) f
• German: Entzündung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: πύρωσις f (púrōsis)

• Hungarian: gyulladás (hu)
• Irish: adhaint f, gríosú m, lasadh m
• Japanese: 点火 (ja) (てんか, tenka)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: ard-lossey m
• Maori: mumura
• Persian: کردن ورم
• Portuguese: inflamação (pt) f
• Romanian: aprindere (ro), inflamare (ro) f
• Spanish: inflamación (es) f
• Tocharian B: pälśalñe

medical condition

• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب m (iltihāb)
• Armenian: բորբոքում (hy) (borbokʻum)
• Azerbaijani: iltihab
• Bulgarian: възпаление (bg) n (vǎzpalenie)
• Catalan: inflamació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 炎症 (zh) (yánzhèng)

• Czech: zánět (cs) m
• Danish: betændelse (da) c
• Dutch: ontsteking (nl) f
• Estonian: põletik
• Finnish: tulehdus (fi)
• French: inflammation (fr) f
• Galician: inflamación (gl) f
• German: Entzündung (de) f
• Greek: φλεγμονή (el) f (flegmoní)

  Ancient: φλεγμονή f (phlegmonḗ), πύρωσις f (púrōsis)

• Hawaiian: ʻūpehupehu
• Hebrew: דַּלֶּקֶת (he) f (daléket)
• Hungarian: gyulladás (hu)
• Icelandic: bólga (is) f, þroti m
• Irish: bruith f, aodh f, athlasadh m, gor m, séideadh m, tine f
• Italian: infiammazione (it)
• Japanese: 炎症 (ja) (えんしょう, enshō)
• Korean: 염증(炎症) (ko) (yeomjeung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kulbûnî (ku)

• Lao: ອັກເສບ (ʼak sēp)
• Malay: radang
• Malayalam: കോശജ്വലനം (kōśajvalanaṁ)
• Manx: ard-lossey m
• Maori: pauku, mumura
• Norman: enfliammâtion f
• Norwegian: betennelse
• Persian: التهاب (fa) (eltehâb)
• Polish: zapalenie (pl)
• Portuguese: inflamação (pt) f
• Russian: воспале́ние (ru) n (vospalénije)
• Slovak: zápal (sk) m
• Spanish: inflamación (es) f
• Swedish: inflammation (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamamaga (tl)
• Tajik: илтиҳоб (tg) (iltihob)
• Thai: การอักเสบ (th)
• Turkish: enflamasyon (tr), iltihap (tr)
• Ukrainian: запалення (zapalennja)
• Vietnamese: viêm (vi)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnflammātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.ma.sjɔ̃/
• Homophone: inflammations

Noun

inflammation f (plural inflammations)

1. inflammation

Derived terms

• inflammatoire
• auto-inflammation

Related terms

• enflammer

Further reading

• “inflammation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

inflammation c

1. (pathology) inflammation

Declension

Declension of inflammation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	inflammation	inflammationen	inflammationer	inflammationerna
Genitive	inflammations	inflammationens	inflammationers	inflammationernas

Related terms

• inflammera

References

• inflammation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• inflammation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• inflammation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)