inflammation
The state of being inflamed.
Other meanings
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.
The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire.
Related words
- fibroinflammation
- hypoinflammation
- immunoinflammation
- inflammage
- inflammaging
- metainflammation
- oncoinflammation
- reinflammation
- thromboinflammation
- antiinflammation
- neuroinflammation
- autoinflammation
Word history
From Latin "inflammatio" (īnflammātiō).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “inflammation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.