inflammation

English

Etymology

From Middle French inflammation, from Latin īnflammātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnfləˈmeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

inflammation (countable and uncountable, plural inflammations)

1. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire.
2. The state of being inflamed
3. (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.
4. (archaic) Violent excitement

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

   Synonyms: passion, animosity, turbulence, heat

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:inflammation

Derived terms

• antiinflammation
• autoinflammation
• hyperinflammation
• microinflammation
• necroinflammation
• neuroinflammation
• parainflammation
• proinflammation

 

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
• Spanish: inflamación (es) f
• Tocharian B: pälśalñe

medical condition

• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب‎ m (iltihāb)
• Armenian: բորբոքում (hy) (borbokʿum)
• 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
• 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)
• Malay: radang
• Malayalam: കോശജ്വലനം (kōśajvalanaṃ)
• 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)
• Thai: การอักเสบ (th)
• Turkish: enflamasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: запалення (zapalennja)
• Vietnamese: viêm (vi)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnflammātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.ma.sjɔ̃/
• Homophone: inflammations

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Noun

inflammation f (plural inflammations)

1. inflammation

Further reading

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