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

Matched Categories

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. Adams Waldorf:

   We need more research into understanding the inflammation that occurs in the urinary tract infection and how it might impact the fetus.

3. Terrie Moffitt:

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

4. Rebecca Utz:

   That feeling may be inducing some of these chemical changes that may set them up for chronic inflammation and possibly chronic disease in the future. a person does not have to die to experience a loss.

5. Barry Sears:

   There’s now a lot of evidence that inflammation causes several types of cancer.