INFLAMMA'TION, noun [Latin inflammatio.] 1. The act of setting on fire or inflaming. 2. The state of being in flame. 3. In medicine and surgery, a redness and swelling of any part of an animal body, attended with heat, pain and febrile symptoms. 4. Violent excitement; heat; animosity; turbulence; as an inflammation of the body politic, or of parties.
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