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inflammation
1. Arousal to violent emotion.
2. A localized protective reaction of tissue to irritation, injury, or infection, characterized by pain, redness, swelling, and sometimes loss of function.
3. Redness, swelling, pain, and/or a feeling of heat in an area of the body.
5. The act of setting on fire or of catching on fire.
2. A localized protective reaction of tissue to irritation, injury, or infection, characterized by pain, redness, swelling, and sometimes loss of function.
3. Redness, swelling, pain, and/or a feeling of heat in an area of the body.
This is a protective reaction to injury, disease, or irritation of the tissues.
4. The state of being emotionally aroused and worked up.5. The act of setting on fire or of catching on fire.
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-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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“inflammation”
(Greek: a suffix; inflammation, burning sensation; by extension, disease associated with inflammation)
(Greek [phlegmatikos] and Latin [phlegmaticus]: heat, inflammation; burn, inflame)
(Greek: fire, flame; inflammation)
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“inflammation”
purulent inflammation
An inflammatory process productive of an exudate rich in neutrophils, which undergoes liquifaction necrosis to produce pus.
It is distinguished from suppurative inflammation by the lack of necrosis of fixed tissues, and is exemplified by the exudate often occurring in the common cold.
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puro-, puru-
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suppurative inflammation
An inflammatory process producing a purulent exudate plus death and liquefaction necrosis of the associated fixed tissue.
It is distinguished from purulent inflammation by necrosis of fixed tissue.
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suppurant-, suppura-
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