Sample sentences for INFLAMMATION

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Definition

swelling, redness, and other body tissue response to injury or infection

Much more rarely, inflammation can reference a state of violent emotional arousal — as in: "The crowd was in a state of extreme inflammation."

inflammation around the wound

Researches found a surprising link between inflammation and heart attacks.
There's some rigidity and some inflammation.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
Pausing, Green gingerly touched a boil on the back of his neck, a mature inflammation that seemed, like its angry wearer, about to burst.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
For example, syphilis causes an inflammation of the aorta, a very specific, peculiar reaction.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
I have stated that when Dr. Flint put Ellen in jail, at two years old, she had an inflammation of the eyes, occasioned by measles.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jefferson battled a head cold and suffered from inflammation of the eyes.
David McCullough -- John Adams
The inflammation in her belly and the pain in her breasts began to subside.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
His feverish state and the inflammation of his bowels, which were injured, were in the doctor's opinion sure to carry him off.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
More cartilage and tendon tissue were lost from the chronic inflammation.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
It was getting better, the inflammation was going down, and AP was doing ultrasound on my shoulder.
Tim Tebow -- Through My Eyes
All this time Henchard's smouldering sentiments towards Lucetta had been fanned into higher and higher inflammation by the circumstances of the case.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
Cerebral inflammation was complete and had brought on a paralysis of movement and sensation.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
He noted that the injected cattle showed no inflammation nor rise in temperature.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
The contracted muscles of my throat relaxed—and the inflammation of my lips in some measure subsided.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Inflammation spread to adjacent blood vessels; lured to the scene of the accident, white corpuscles now arrived; death by congealing proceeded apace.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Swelling and inflammation had forced the twisted catgut threads to cut deep into his flesh, while beads of clear liquid oozed from the wound.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
The herbs are more for the inflammation—" my mother begins calmly.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
There'll be no inflammation though."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
For days doctor and nurse strove with him, hoping that the leaping inflammation would not strike at his heart.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

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