Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of setting on fire, or of inflaming.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of setting in a flame or blaze.
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- noun obsolete The act of setting in a
flame orblaze .
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Examples
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Thus, in any biopsy collection taken that year, Robin could see both infected specimens with in flammation
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In - flammation never appears in a part which mortal thought does not reach.
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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We have observed generalized ceph - the ear, tinnitus, and difficulty hearing are all commonly ob - alalgia and cervical pain with TMJ inflammation, particularly served in patients with inflammatory arthropathy of the TMJ. when joint disease is bilateral and/or associated with acquired We have confirmed transitory decrease in conductive and malocclusion [1 1]. sensorineural hearing in association with ipsilateral TMJ in - We observed isointense signal relative to gray matter within flammation.
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In feveral it abounds in fuch a degree asy when applied externally, in a recent ftate, to excite vefications, and ulceration of the parts, fre - quently of a malignant and gangrenous nature: and, when taken inwardly, to prove poifonous and fatal, by inducing vomiting, in - flammation of the ftomach, with the ufual confequences of acrid poifons.
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As to the refidence upon the ifiand, the principal inconvenience attending it is the vaft numbers of mufcatos, and various other fpecies of flies, together with an infect called a tick: this, though principally attached to the cattle, would yet frequently faften upon our limbs and bodies, and mile a painful in - flammation.
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At the end of - that lime, the ghvadera sro* peered to roe to ibe incurable in rise two lad j fthey therefore were Jwlkrh On opening their aoftrils, I difcot vered nothing .. now: the pituitary membrane was ulcerated**. as t* mod of ihofe il bad •already open - ed: the pleura and the lungs feemed to be feoftbly inflamed:. .the in* flammation was greater in the viU loos membrane of the ftomaca, in the pitorus, and the froaller intef* tines.
Sporting Magazine 1796
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Should any in - flammation or extreme fwelling attend the parts after operation, warm fomentations and mild poultices muft be made ufe of till they fubfide; after which the wound muft be treat - ed with digeftives till the exuberance is Houghed off with the dreffings, and the cica - trization, or fkinning over, is accompliflied, as in the cafe of abfcefles and wounds, which will be treated of hereafter, when we come to that clafs.
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