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INFLAMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Adorned with tongues of flame
Classified under:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Domain category:
heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lighted with red light as if with flames
Example:
reddened faces around the campfire
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened
Example:
eyes inflamed with crying
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb inflame
Context examples:
“Am I to be preached to by a child?” he cried, staring across at Alleyne with an inflamed and angry countenance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The knuckles were skinned and inflamed clear across, the fingers swollen, the nails rimmed with black.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The other eye inflamed: he lost the sight of that also.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A condition in which the gastrointestinal tract is inflamed over a long period of time.
(Crohn disease, NCI Dictionary)
A condition in which the conjunctiva (membranes lining the eyelids and covering the white part of the eye) become inflamed or infected.
(Conjunctivitis, NCI Dictionary)
Colchicine blocks cell division and the movement of certain immune cells to areas that are inflamed.
(Colchicine, NCI Dictionary)
Symptoms include fever, inflamed mucous membranes in the mouth, and infections.
(Cyclic neutropenia, NCI Dictionary)
Overall, colchicine decreases leukocyte chemotaxis/migration and phagocytosis to inflamed areas, and inhibits the formation and release of a chemotactic glycoprotein that is produced during phagocytosis of urate crystals.
(Colchicine, NCI Thesaurus)
The procedure lets your doctor see things such as inflamed tissue, abnormal growths, and ulcers.
(Colonoscopy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
If the pouches become inflamed or infected, you have a condition called diverticulitis.
(Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
