inflammation

English

Etymology

From Middle French inflammation, from Latin īnflammātiō, equivalent to inflame +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnfləˈmeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

inflammation

Wikipedia

inflammation (countable and uncountable, plural inflammations)

1. (now rare) The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire.

   Synonym: ignition

2. The state of being inflamed.
4. (pathology) 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.
   • 2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD‎:

     Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.

5. (archaic) Violent excitement.

   Synonyms: passion, animosity, turbulence, heat

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

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:inflammation

Derived terms

• antiinflammation
• autoinflammation
• fibroinflammation
• hyperinflammation
• hypoinflammation
• immunoinflammation
• inflammage
• inflammaging
• metainflammation
• microinflammation
• necroinflammation
• neuroinflammation
• oncoinflammation
• parainflammation
• proinflammation
• reinflammation
• thromboinflammation

Translations

act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed

Azerbaijani: alovlandırma, odlama, alışdırma Bulgarian: запа́лване n (zapálvane) Catalan: inflamació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 引燃 (zh) (yǐnrán) Danish: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: inflamo sg Finnish: sytyttäminen (fi), sytytys (fi), liekeissä (fi) (state), tulessa (fi) (state) Galician: inflamación (gl) f German: Entzündung (de) f Greek: Ancient: πύρωσις f (púrōsis) Hungarian: gyulladás (hu) Irish: adhaint f, gríosú m, lasadh m Japanese: 点火 (ja) (てんか, tenka) Korean: please add this translation if you can Manx: ard-lossey m Maori: mumura Persian: کردن ورم Portuguese: inflamação (pt) f Romanian: aprindere (ro), inflamare (ro) f Russian: воспламенение (ru) (vosplamenenije), возгорание (ru) (vozgoranije) Spanish: inflamación (es) f Tocharian B: pälśalñe

medical condition

Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب m (iltihāb) Armenian: բորբոքում (hy) (borbokʻum) Azerbaijani: iltihab Bulgarian: възпаление (bg) n (vǎzpalenie) Catalan: inflamació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 炎症 (zh) (yánzhèng) Czech: zánět (cs) m Danish: betændelse (da) c Dutch: ontsteking (nl) f Estonian: põletik Finnish: tulehdus (fi) French: inflammation (fr) f Galician: inflamación (gl) f German: Entzündung (de) f Greek: φλεγμονή (el) f (flegmoní) Ancient: φλεγμονή f (phlegmonḗ), πύρωσις f (púrōsis) Hawaiian: ʻūpehupehu Hebrew: דַּלֶּקֶת (he) f (daléket) Hungarian: gyulladás (hu) Icelandic: bólga (is) f, þroti m Indonesian: peradangan (id), inflamasi (id) Irish: bruith f, aodh f, athlasadh m, gor m, séideadh m, tine f Italian: infiammazione (it) Japanese: 炎症 (ja) (えんしょう, enshō) Korean: 염증(炎症) (ko) (yeomjeung) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kulbûnî (ku) Lao: ອັກເສບ (ʼak sēp) Lithuanian: uždegimas m Malay: radang, keradangan Malayalam: കോശജ്വലനം (kōśajvalanaṁ) Manx: ard-lossey m Maori: pauku, mumura Norman: enfliammâtion f Norwegian: betennelse Persian: التهاب (fa) (eltehâb) Polish: zapalenie (pl) Portuguese: inflamação (pt) f Russian: воспале́ние (ru) n (vospalénije) Slovak: zápal (sk) m Spanish: inflamación (es) f Swedish: inflammation (sv) c Tagalog: pamamaga (tl) Tajik: илтиҳоб (tg) (iltihob) Tamil: அழற்சி (ta) (aḻaṟci) Thai: การอักเสบ (th) Turkish: enflamasyon (tr), iltihap (tr) Ukrainian: запалення (zapalennja) Vietnamese: viêm (vi)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnflammātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.ma.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Homophone: inflammations

Noun

inflammation f (plural inflammations)

1. inflammation

Derived terms

• inflammatoire
• auto-inflammation

Related terms

• enflammer

Further reading

• “inflammation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

inflammation

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

inflammation c

1. (pathology) inflammation

Declension

Declension of inflammation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	inflammation	inflammations
	definite	inflammationen	inflammationens
plural	indefinite	inflammationer	inflammationers
	definite	inflammationerna	inflammationernas

Derived terms

• benhinneinflammation
• bihåleinflammation
• bindhinneinflammation
• bitestikelinflammation
• blindtarmsinflammation
• bukhinneinflammation
• gallblåseinflammation
• hjärnhinneinflammation
• hjärninflammation
• hjärtinflammation
• hjärtmuskelinflammation
• hjärtsäcksinflammation
• inflammationshämmande
• inflammationshärd
• juverinflammation
• kotledsinflammation
• ledinflammation
• leverinflammation
• lunginflammation
• lungsäcksinflammation
• senskideinflammation
• tandköttsinflammation
• testikelinflammation
• tonsillinflammation
• äggstocksinflammation
• ögoninflammation
• öroninflammation

Related terms

• inflammera

References

• inflammation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• inflammation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• inflammation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH