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inflammation   (TTS Sound)

The noun inflammation has 4 senses

• inflammation, redness, rubor -- (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)


• excitement, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour -- (the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation")


• inflammation, inflaming -- (arousal to violent emotion)


• ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation -- (the act of setting something on fire)