INFLAMMA'TION, n. L. 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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