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