(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
(v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
(v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
(v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
(v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
(2) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
(3) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
(4) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
(5) "On the contrary, they often serve to inflame rather than mollify the feelings of those involved."
(6) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
(7) At both 24 h and 1 week, the inflamed paw showed pronounced supersensitivity to the antinociceptive action of morphine against noxious pressure.
(8) When given 30 min after acetic acid instillation SC-41930 prevented the rise in myeloperoxidase and dye extravasation observed in the acetic acid inflammed tissue.
(9) This functions is disturbed in inflamed joints by the decrease in the HA concentration and possibly by its depolymerization.
(10) Uptake in inflamed tissue of three cholesterol-rich liposome preparations was always significantly greater than the uptake noted in normal tissue.
(11) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(12) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.
(13) These findings suggest that H pylori may add to the local production of paf in inflamed gastric mucosa.
(14) Sodium fluorescein and fluorescinated dextrans (FD) of selected molecular weights were combined and perfused into the anterior chamber of normal and inflamed eyes of cynomolgus monkeys.
(15) Overgrowth of cartilage by inflamed synovium was seen within 3-6 days of induction of arthritis and by day 12 the interface between these two tissues was largely indistinguishable.
(16) Whereas NS of allergic and inflamed noses extracted allergens very rapidly, NS of normal noses showed no extraction activity.
(17) Of 22 selected gingival areas, an average of 5.4 was inflamed, and 2.9 were severely inflamed.
(18) Tight junctions only occur in inflamed tissue between the most superficial cells usually as part of a lateral intercellular junctional complex that also contains belt desmosomes.
(19) While arguments will persist over the rights and wrongs of publishing, what seems certain is that the incident will inflame already tense relations between Buckingham Palace and the European media.
(20) The fascia was inflamed and fibrotic, and adjacent skeletal muscle often showed perifascicular inflammation.
Pimple
Definition:
(n.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
(n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
Example Sentences:
(1) "All the big German newspapers and news magazines are now increasingly trying to have one editorial team overlook all of its channels of output – it's better for the overall brand," said Roland Pimpl, a correspondent for the trade magazine Horizont.
(2) These pimples exhibit a unique and complex morphology.
(3) In the white form, budding cells appear similar to those of most other strains of C. albicans, but in the opaque form, budding cells are larger, are bean shaped, and possess pimples on the wall.
(4) Results showed that a significant (P less than .05) linear increase in pimple score, uterine ash, and serum calcium occurred as dietary levels of D3 increased.
(5) The possibility is suggested that the vacuole of opaque cells is the origin of membrane-bound vesicles which traverse the wall through specialized pimple structures and emerge from the pimple with an intact outer double membrane, a unique phenomenon in yeast cells.
(6) John Lopez, Vanity Fair Whether or not Sorkin "sexed" The Social Network up hardly even matters: in sexing it up, he merely cast an unpleasant spotlight on that nasty pimple resting on the tip of our nose, whose presence we try so hard to hide with makeup so that we can go out and face the working world with dignity.
(7) The opaque-cell-specific 14.5-kDa antigen either is in the pimple channel or is a component of the emerging vesicle.
(8) The antics of the past week are pimples pointing to a deeper infection within the Conservative organism – and, for that matter, the body politic.
(9) "The pitch was frozen solid but Lincoln had the new Adidas pimpled studs, and ours had long nylon studs," he recalled.
(10) The functions of the unique opaque-cell pimple and emerging vesicle are not known.
(11) The trouble with the government's proposals so far is that they are mere pimples on the surface."
(12) The typical features are, in the beginning, a pruritic insect-bite-like pimple, then a painless ulcer surrounded by serous-hemorrhagic, often rapidly confluent vesicles and non-pitting edema.
(13) Feed consumption, egg production, egg weight, egg specific gravity, and pimple score were determined at weekly or biweekly intervals for a 10-week period.
(14) Pimpled egg shells are one of the various types of egg shell problems in the industry today.
(15) A peculiar anatomoclinic form is described about the Balanoposthite chronique circonscrite bénigne à plasmocytes (Zoon): the pimpled, erosive, nodular and pseudoangiomatous form.
(16) It was concluded that egg shell pimpling is directly related to level of cholecalciferol (D3) in the diet.
(17) A 17-month-old baby boy was noted to have a pimple-like lesion at the corona of the glans penis.
(18) There's even one in which she appears to have a pimple .
(19) In the Vivida group, five patients developed transient, mild pimples during the first weeks of treatment, but no other adverse effects occurred.
(20) The hyphae formed by opaque cells were morphologically identical to hyphae formed by white cells (i.e., they were devoid of pimples or protrusions and exhibited the same shape and septal locations).