Word Finder - inflammation

definition

The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire.

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The state of being inflamed

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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.

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Violent excitement

example

an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties

synonyms

• animosity
• heat
• passion
• turbulence

This resulted in an inflammation of the upper membrane of the brain, delirium and death.

The process of inflammation is a defensive one, but if carried too far may prove injurious.

They are often used to treat inflammation.

Discovery in these various directions then led physicians to regard fever and inflammation not as separable entities, but as fluctuating symptomgroups, due to swervings of function from the normal balance under contingent forces.

Acute inflammation of the ear, with its alarming extensions to the cerebral.

The ambassador recovered, but Descartes fell a victim to the same disease, inflammation of the lungs.

The inflammation is caused by urate crystals being shed into the joints.

There can be little doubt that the intensity of inflammation frequently depends very much on the condition of the blood, and that by altering the blood inflammation may be lessened.

Tumor necrosis factor alpha also plays a pivotal part in inflammation.

As these bacteria contain many pro-inflammatory components the failure to induce inflammation is paradoxical.

Diets filled with cereal fiber also may help prevent diabetes and a painful intestinal inflammation called diverticular disease.

The findings could also shed light on the basic causes of chronic inflammation.

Asthma is characterized by chronic eosinophilic inflammation in the airways, which is thought to be regulated by the activity of T lymphocytes.

Extensive, mainly acute, inflammation may be found in the cancerous bone of the skull.

These effects are made worse by exposures greater than one hour and may lead to airway inflammation which may produce short term breathing difficulties.

Once cirrhosis has developed it is usually considered irreversible, even if the inflammation which caused it improves.

Lung toxins Some of the toxins present in smoke are highly irritant or directly toxic to the bronchial mucosa causing airway inflammation.

The pain is caused by pinching and inflammation of the sensitive hoof laminae at the edge of the crack.

Damage to blood vessels may cause inflammation, but may simply make blood vessels leaky.

If in extracting the insect the abdomen be ruptured, serious trouble may ensue from the resulting inflammation.

After graduating honourably in 1814 he entered his father's office as a student of law; but in January 1815 the uninjured eye showed dangerous symptoms of inflammation.

Trophic disturbance in the nutrition of the skin may be so great that a slight degree of external pressure or irritation is sufficient to excite even a gangrenous inflammation.

Injury and loss of tissue are usually followed by repair, and both the destructive and reparative changes are, as a rule, classified under the term inflammation.

One can easily demonstrate all the actions and reactions which take place in this form of acute inflammation.

A further application of the facts of chemiotaxis and phagocytosis has been made by Metchnikoff to the case of Inflammation.

Of the older ontological notions of disease the strongest were those of the essence of fever and of the essence of inflammation.

When in 1838 Baron Wesseleny' was unjustly thrown into prison upon a charge of treason Kolcsey eloquently though unsuccessfully conducted his defence; and he died about a week afterwards (August 24) from internal inflammation.

As the result of chronic irritation of the liver increased supplies of blood pass to it, and if the irritation is unduly prolonged inflammation is the result.

When the inflammation occurs in soft parts where the surrounding vessels can be readily dilated, heat often affords more relief to the pain than cold, but when the inflammation is in a bone or in unyielding fibrous tissues, cold generally gives more relief.

For example, the pain of a gum-boil is generally relieved more by warmth, because the yielding tissues of the gum, mouth and cheek can be readily relaxed by heat and their vessels dilated; but when the pain is dependent upon inflammation in the hard unyielding socket of a tooth, cold generally gives greater relief.

Certain drugs have the power of relieving inflammation by slowing the heart and rendering its impulse more feeble.

Amongst those are to be classed small doses of aconite and colchicum; the former especially tends to lessen the process of inflammation generally, when it is not too severe.

For example, a mercurial pill at night, followed by salts and senna in the morning, will often relieve the pain in toothache or gum-boil, and lessen inflammation not only in the mouth, but other parts of the body as well.

Although the high temperature in an inflamed part is chiefly due to the increased circulation of blood in it, yet the presence of inflammation appears to cause increased formation of heat either in the inflamed part itself or in the body generally, because we rarely find inflammation exist to any extent without the temperature of the body being raised and a febrile condition produced.

At the same time it produces a poison which causes inflammation of the nerves, leading to paralysis, which sometimes proves fatal.

The post-mortem appearances are also very similar, but the gastro-intestinal irritation is much less marked and inflammation of the lungs is more commonly seen.

Acute inflammation of various types, suppuration, granulation-tissue formation, &c., represent some of the complex resulting processes.

Simon published many clinical surgical lectures of the greatest importance, and contributed a masterly article on "Inflammation" to Holmes's System of Surgery, which has become a classic of its kind.

He died, however, on the 4th of May 1865, of inflammation of the lungs supervening on a severe cold contracted during excavation work at La Palisse, leaving a half-finished book, entitled Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was issued in parts and completed at the expense of Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Professor Rupert Jones.

Its physiological effects are much more persistent and injurious than sulphuretted hydrogen, producing temporary paralysis of the olfactory nerves and inflammation of the mucous membrane.

After death there is found one noteworthy lesion, a commencing acute inflammation of the internal ear.

In January 1725 he was seized with a violent cough and inflammation of the lungs, which induced him to reside at Kensington; and in the following month he had a severe attack of gout, which produced a decided improvement in his general health.

Sometimes, though rarely, the ulcers perforate the intestines, causing rapidly fatal inflammation of the peritoneum, or they may erode a blood vessel and produce violent haemorrhage.

In the midst of such labours, and enjoying still full bodily and mental vigour, he was carried off after a few days' illness by inflammation of the lungs, on the 12th of February 1834.

After acute poisoning, the stomach at a post-mortem presents signs of intense inflammation, parts or the whole of its mucous membrane being of a colour varying from dark red to bright vermilion and of ten corrugated.

From 1738 to 1741 he was placed in the care of an oculist, as he suffered from inflammation of the eyes.

If children frequently suffer from ear inflammation caused by enlarged adenoids or tonsils, they may be removed surgically.

In animal studies of skin inflammation, both topical and oral aloe vera have proven beneficial in decreasing inflammation and promoting cellular repair.

Infliximab ties up a special protein in the body called tumor necrosis factor alpha or TNF a, which is involved in inflammation.

Pain behind the heel is usually due to Achilles tendinitis and inflammation of the various bursae.