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inflammation

inflammation

53 3.7
A part of the body that becomes red, swollen, hot, and often painful after injury or infection
  • noun
  • /ˌɪnfləˈmeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : inflamación
  • In this period, she suffered from an inflammation of the eye, nervousness, fever, and a cough.
  • chronic inflammation
  • acute inflammation
  • inflammation and infection

Second one, is inflammation from food a real thing?

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Examples

  • If I do so, it will lead to chronic inflammation and other diseases.

  • The tumor was suspected to be caused by chronic inflammation secondary to the patient's earlier cataract surgery.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Second one, is inflammation from food a real thing?

    ZOE
  • So we start to see inflammation come down.

  • Well, if I have high levels of inflammation in my body, will I feel it?

  • It's a constant low grade inflammation and it makes people feel sick.

  • And how do you prevent getting inflammation in your elbow?

  • Okay, I think we're gonna treat this inflammation with antibiotics.

  • So it seems like the inflammation causes the fever.

  • The doctor explained that inflammation is the body's response to injury, causing redness and swelling.

Antonyms

344 2.1

The body's natural process of getting better after injury or illness

264 3.0

Getting better after illness or injury

Compounds

6.8

Swelling of the heart muscle that can make the heart weak

8.4

A painful swelling of the thin lining inside the belly covering the organs

How Inflamed

ulceration
  • Specialized
1 7.0
abscess
  • Specialized
23 7.5
inflammation
  • Specialized
53 3.7
irritation
21 3.2

Surface Forms

inflammation singular
inflammations plural

Morphology

inflammation = inflame (transparent) = inflame + ation

Formed by the common noun/verb base 'inflame' plus the productive noun-forming suffix '-ation', yielding the standard medical/process noun.

Etymology

Inflammation comes from the Latin root inflamare and the part flamma, which mean 'to set on fire' and 'flame'. Think of an injured part of the body as if it were 'lit up'—red, hot and painful—and that is why inflammation now means this medical reaction.