inflammatory
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6.8
- adjective
- /ɪnˈflæməˌtɔri/
- Specialized
- After the injury, the athlete experienced an inflammatory response that resulted in redness and swelling around the affected area.
- inflammatory response
- inflammatory disease
- inflammatory reaction
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Watch on YouTubeI'm creating a inflammatory response in your body.
- I'm creating a inflammatory response in your body.
- So if you don't lower the inflammatory pathway, you can pump this up.
- It it's sitting there and it's secreting inflammatory compounds.
- And then finally, the lowest hazard ratio on this list is inflammatory biomarkers like HSCRP.
- So that's the inflammatory aspect of this.
- And if you get the right cells there, you turn off that inflammatory response.
- And it's when those compounds do pass through that you can provoke an inflammatory response.
- Because the latest theory for autoimmune disease is that, that you get this inflammatory reaction.
- So you have more blood in circulation available to to your muscles and the inflammatory state of your body goes down.
- And so I, I was always looking to take in extra carbs before I knew how inflammatory my diet was.
- Sugar, inflammatory grains and inflammatory industrial seed oils.
- Yeah, Yeah, lots of flour and and lots of high inflammatory vegetables.
Examples
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Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory condition that affects multiple synovial joints.
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Vocal fold movement might be impaired by the surrounding inflammatory processes, a condition that mimics vocal fold paralysis.
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It's a living moving situation with inflammatory cells coming in and moving out.
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And if you get the right cells there, you turn off that inflammatory response.
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It's a common chronic inflammatory disease.
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It's a common, chronic inflammatory disease.
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So we see lots of inflammatory markers higher during this time.
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The foods that are processed, those are inflammatory foods.
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Endometriosis is essentially an inflammatory autoimmune condition.
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Biopsies taken from the laryngeal scarring demonstrated chronic inflammatory changes with fibrosis.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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6.2
Causing parts of the body to become red, hot, or swollen
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7.4
Causing swelling, pain, or redness in body tissues
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.0
A health problem that makes a body part red, painful or swollen
- Specialized
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3.4
A long-term illness that makes the gut swollen and sore, usually Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
- Specialized
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3.9
A serious infection in a woman's lower belly that causes pain, fever, and unusual vaginal discharge
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4.0
A medicine that reduces pain and swelling without steroids
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4.1
A medicine that reduces pain and swelling without steroids, like ibuprofen or aspirin
How Inflammatory
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Etymology
Inflammatory comes from the Latin inflammare, which means 'to set on fire' and shares its root with the common word flame. So, something inflammatory in medicine is like 'setting on fire' a part of the body, causing heat, swelling, and pain.