inflammation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, [ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən] ~ [ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃn̩]; [ɪɱfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən] ~ [ɪɱfləˈmeɪ̯ʃn̩]

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: in‧flam‧ma‧tion

Noun

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^[1]:

     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

Related terms

• flammability
• flammable
• flammably
• flammule
• inflammable
• inflammatory

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 Greek: πύρωσις f (púrōsis)

• Hindi: जलन (hi) f (jalan)
• 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
• Māori: 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
• Ukrainian: запалювати (zapaljuvaty)

medical condition

• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب m (iltihāb)
• Armenian: բորբոքում (hy) (borbokʻum)
• Azerbaijani: iltihab
• Bulgarian: възпаление (bg) n (văzpalenie)
• Catalan: inflamació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 炎症 (zh) (yánzhèng), 發炎 / 发炎 (zh) (fāyán)

• 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 Greek: φλεγμονή f (phlegmonḗ), πύρωσις f (púrōsis)

• Hawaiian: ʻūpehupehu
• Hebrew: דַּלֶּקֶת (he) f (daléket)
• Hindi: जलन (hi) f (jalan)
• 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
• Māori: 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)
• Walloon: efouwaedje (wa) m

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

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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “inflammation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “inflammation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH