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Inflammatory - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Inflammatory : \In*flam"ma*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. inflammatoire.]
1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition;
seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or
publications. --Burke.
3. (Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause,
preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as,
an inflammatory disease.
Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under
Buffy.
Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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Example Usage of Inflammatory |
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diseasedatabase: http://diseasedatabase.org/2009/12/ยป-possible-cause-of-Inflammatory-bowel-disease-uncovered/ |
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GrayJones: Can someone please vote at http://bit.ly/6HoBHQ with a nice comment so the Inflammatory one is not at the top? Thanks. |
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bridges2italy: argest genetic analysis of childhood-onset Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD),intl team incl Italy's IRCCS-CSS found 5 new gene regions |
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