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Definition of Inflammatory
1. Adjective. Characterized or caused by inflammation. "An inflammatory response"
2. Adjective. Arousing to action or rebellion.
Similar to: Provocative
Derivative terms: Incite, Inflame, Instigate, Sedition
Definition of Inflammatory
1. a. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
Definition of Inflammatory
1. Adjective. Tending to inflame or provoke somebody. ¹
2. Adjective. Causing or caused by inflammation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inflammatory
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Inflammatory
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflammatory
Literary usage of Inflammatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"Journ. of April 16, 1887, his views of the pathology of chronic inflammatory
disease of the uterine appendages, as illustrated in a series of 63 cases ..."
2. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"THE form assumed by the inflammatory reaction varies somewhat with the ...
According to the distribution of the inflammatory irritant in the tissues the ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"Moderate peripheral fatty infiltration existed, but there was an entire absence
of inflammatory reaction within the liver tissue 1 This study was aided by ..."
4. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"The necessity for this arises from the fact that inflammatory affections are ...
The chronic productive inflammatory processes which in the soft parts lead ..."
5. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1903)
"Secondly, there is the acute catarrhal or lobular pneumonia, where a catarrhal
inflammatory process spreads from the capillary bronchi to the air vesicles, ..."
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