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. Hanim Ozgul:

   I started feeling pain in my stomach and abdomen and they could never find a reason, later I went to another hopsital. The doctor said that my body had an inflammation. Later they told me to have an X-ray. When the X-ray machine started up it became beeping and a doctor said to me: ‘You have scissors in your pocket.’.

2. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   That is a recipe for a re-inflammation of another civil war - I should say a theological war, a religious war - and the sparks of that could be millions more that go into Europe and so on ... And that would cause endless upheaval and terrorism in many, many countries, obviously we are not going to let them do it. We'll fight them. By preventing that - and we have bombed the bases of this, these Shi'ite militias - by preventing that, we are also offering, helping the security of your countries, the security of the world.

3. Joshua Zeichner:

   Soap has a high pH that can disrupt the outer layer of your skin and cause inflammation and dryness.

4. Serena Williams:

   I have some knee inflammation that's going away very slowly. Australia Gold's going, Australia Gold just needs a little more time, i'm not making any decisions. I'm just taking Australia Gold one day at a time.

5. William Eaton:

   There are many studies now on mental disorders and inflammation and immunity, the immune processes involved in mental disorders are terribly important because if we could understand them we might be able to prevent or better treat disorders -- and we don't have quite enough understanding to do that yet.