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Definition of Inflamed

1. Adjective. Resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened. "Eyes inflamed with crying"

2. Adjective. Lighted with red light as if with flames. "Reddened faces around the campfire"

3. Adjective. Adorned with tongues of flame.

Definition of Inflamed

1. p. a. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.

Definition of Inflamed

1. Adjective. Resulting from or affected by inflammation. ¹

2. Adjective. Appearing to be in flames; as if made of fire. ¹

3. Verb. (past of inflame) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inflamed

1. inflame [v] - See also: inflame

Medical Definition of Inflamed

1. Inflammation is the reaction of living tissues to injury, infection or irritation. Inflamed tissues are characterised by pain, swelling, redness and heat. Anything that stimulates the inflammatory response is said to be inflammatory. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflamed

infirmly infirmness infirms infitah infix infix notation infixal infixation infixations infixed

infixes infixing infixion infixions inflame inflamed (current term) inflamed ulcer inflamedness inflamer inflamers

inflames inflaming inflamingly inflammability inflammable inflammable air inflammableness inflammables inflammably inflammasome

Literary usage of Inflamed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"This assertion is supported by the finding that in general the temperature of the inflamed peripheral tissue is not greater than the temperature of the ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"The power of contracting on a distending force, and expelling their contents, was tried in the arteries both of the inflamed ..."

3. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"... or inflamed EVES, (F.) Yeta ardita. The eyes arc so called when injected red. ... in passing over the inflamed mucous membrane of the urethra, ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"... properties of Arteries leading to inflamed parts. By Dr. ALISON. These observations were made with the able assistance of Mr. Dick, veterinary surgeon, ..."

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