Synonyms for inflammation
ˌɪn fləˈmeɪ ʃənin·flam·ma·tion

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1. inflammation, redness, rubornoun

   a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

   Synonyms:
   ignition, excitement, fervour, lighting, excitation, rubor, kindling, fervor, firing, redness, inflaming, red

2. excitement, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervournoun

   the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

   "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation"

   Synonyms:
   fervor, firing, fervency, lighting, turmoil, redness, kindling, innervation, excitement, ignition, ardour, excitation, agitation, fervidness, irritation, exhilaration, fire, upheaval, hullabaloo, rubor, inflaming, fervour, ardor

3. inflammation, inflamingnoun

   arousal to violent emotion

   Synonyms:
   ignition, excitement, fervour, lighting, excitation, rubor, kindling, fervor, firing, redness, inflaming

4. ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammationnoun

   the act of setting something on fire

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, fervor, firing, light, liberation, tinder, redness, firing off, dismission, touchwood, sack, ignition, discharge, release, excitement, spunk, sacking, excitation, ignition system, lighting, kindling, rubor, punk, inflaming, fervour, fire

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1. • Arousal
   • Emotional Arousal

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1. inflammationnoun

   Synonyms:
   burning, conflagration, setting on fire

2. inflammationnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) swelling and redness

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1. inflammationnoun

   Synonyms:
   phlogosis, phlegmasia

   Associated words:
   phlogistic, phlogogenous, antiphlogistic, demulcent delitescence

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1. List of paraphrases for "inflammation":

   ignition, flammability, swelling, inflammatory, flame

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1. Ujwala Kaza:

   If you are a person who tends to get a sick a lot, that means theres a background level of inflammation in your upper respiratory tract. If you then adopt a cat, which is a common trigger of allergic asthma, you may be likely to develop asthma. In reality, asthma is a very complex disease process that involves an interplay of many factors, including genetics and environmental triggers.

2. Terrie Moffitt:

   Anything you smoke heats up your gums and causes inflammation and inflammation is bad for your teeth.

3. Lee Schwamm:

   There’s no definitive proof of the relationship between inflammation and clotting, but the evidence is growing and it’s very intriguing, and it emphasizes the value of trying to prevent shingles in the first place by getting vaccinated.

4. Colleen Kraft:

   Most kids get mild illness, but there's a percentage of kids who get very sick, two to six weeks out, kids can develop this multisystem inflammatory condition, where they can get inflammation around their heart and liver and other organs, and they can die from that.

5. Robert Swift:

   Even though they tend to be anti-inflammatory in the body, they can cause inflammation in the stomach, do n’t take them on an empty stomach ; always take anti-inflammatories with food.