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inflammatory

[ in-flam-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.:

    inflammatory speeches.

    Synonyms: provocative, incendiary, fiery

  2. Pathology. of or caused by inflammation.


inflammatory

/ -trɪ; ɪnˈflæmətərɪ /

adjective

  1. characterized by or caused by inflammation
  2. tending to arouse violence, strong emotion, etc


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Derived Forms

  • inˈflammatorily, adverb

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Other Words From

  • in·flamma·tori·ly adverb
  • nonin·flamma·tory adjective
  • subin·flamma·tory adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of inflammatory1

First recorded in 1725–35; from Latin inflammāt(us) “kindled” (past participle of inflammāre “to kindle”; inflame ) + -ory 1

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Example Sentences

Patients with Covid-19 can suffer from an inflammatory condition in which the immune system overreacts to the virus, causing damage that is worse than the infection itself.

From Fortune

For the body, VNS is potentially helpful for inflammatory bowel disease, likely through a pathway that includes certain types of neurons in the spleen—a pathway that biologists dub the “somatosensory autonomic pathway.”

We now see this multi-system, inflammatory condition can be fatal for kids, who average 8 years old.

Timothy Wang, a gastroenterologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and his colleagues went after them using an anti-inflammatory peptide called trefoil factor 2, or TFF2.

Previously, Wang and colleagues showed that some T cells release TFF2 to tone down inflammatory responses, and that giving mice TFF2 can boost the immune system and slow tumor growth.

Klaus espouses inflammatory views on a variety of subjects, some of which Cato happily embraced.

Apparently the succinic acid in the beads has an anti-inflammatory effect.

Potentially inflammatory data points notwithstanding, the study presents otherwise unsurprising information.

He has amassed an enormous back catalog of inflammatory comments on matters ranging from women to the “demonic” movie Avatar.

Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms.

All inflammatory and suppurative diseases cause leukocytosis, except when slight or well walled off.

On the 2d day the incisions were inflamed and there was a pale inflammatory stain around them.

The Girondists had recently been called in the journals and inflammatory speeches of their adversaries the Rolandists.

Inflammatory, obstructive, and membranous dysmenorrhoea are commonly made worse by marriage.

Meetings were held in various quarters, and demagogues addressed the assembled multitudes in the most inflammatory language.

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