flare
13
7.2
- noun
- /flɛr/
- Specialized
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brote
- More generalized pain and/or swelling affecting several joints may indicate a 'flare' in disease activity.
When I got to College in my second quarter, so February of my first year, I got a acute flare of IBD.
- When I got to College in my second quarter, so February of my first year, I got a acute flare of IBD.
- Use me before bedtime spaces out flare ups of severe dryness.
- Sometimes it manifests itself in your joints as a flare up of arthritis, joint pain.
- The people with HS find that they have an immediate flare up if they ingest any kind of yeast.
- It seems that gout patients who regularly have cherry extract or cherry juices report fewer gout flare ups than those patients who did not.
- And I recall one month in my intern year, the one that was the most challenging was where I had a flare up of my IBD.
- But I just, I need to take care of it now more than ever because I just can have rosacea flare ups.
- I wouldn't say I was too much worse, but I was worse in the way that I had had a new area flare up.
- And there have been so many skin care brands and beauty brands, brands that have just told me that it's not beautiful to have breakouts, to have flare ups, to have redness on your skin.
- Pollution was proven to cause age spots, fine liner, wrinkles, inflammatory acne, skin dryness, otopic dermatitis and eczema flare ups.
- And I had a massive flare up of my dermatitis the day before I came on this trip and I was really, really upset.
- My UC would affect me in flare ups, so it wasn't like this daily thing that I had to deal with and I have to be careful about my diet and things like that.
Examples
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Most forms of arthritis begin with flares that come and go with increasing frequency and levels of pain.
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It's a skin condition characterized by flares of redness and inflammation on your cheeks.
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And I had a massive flare up of my dermatitis the day before I came on this trip and I was really, really upset.
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When I got to College in my second quarter, so February of my first year, I got a acute flare of IBD.
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Quick and easy access to specialist services able to manage and treat flares is vital.
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If Jen had done what you just described, the flare-up never would have happened.
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The people with HS find that they have an immediate flare up if they ingest any kind of yeast.
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Recently, I was hospitalized with a flare-up of an autoimmune issue more common in younger people.
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Last winter, I experienced a painful flare of eczema that lasted for weeks.
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She had a serious flare of her asthma during the cold weather, which required hospitalization.
Synonyms
128
2.7
A group of red spots on the skin caused by illness or allergy
18
4.4
A sudden appearance or rise of something, for example skin spots and fast sales
11
6.0
A sudden increase in violence, anger, or symptoms
4
3.0
A red, itchy area on the skin that may have spots or bumps
4
4.9
A sudden rash of red spots that appears on the skin
4
9.5
Redness of the skin caused by widened blood vessels, often from sunburn or irritation
1
4.9
Raised red or swollen patches that suddenly appear on the skin
A skin rash that shows someone has an infection
A red skin rash that appears as a sign of illness
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
12
6.5
A sudden burst of strong energy from the sun that can disrupt radio and satellite signals
- Jargon
A short forward pass to a player running toward the sideline in American football
- Specialized
A line of lights showing the edge of a runway to guide pilots at night or in fog
- Specialized
A small red star that suddenly becomes much brighter for a few minutes because of explosions on its surface
How Severe
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3.1
2
8.6
- Specialized
13
7.2
33
6.5
- Specialized
41
6.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flare for a skin reaction or return of symptoms uses the picture of a sudden red 'flame' on the skin, like the word flame, so a medical flare is when symptoms suddenly get worse or the skin becomes red quickly. The origin links the bright look to the sudden change.