INFLAMMATORY DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inflammatory disease mean? 

• INFLAMMATORY DISEASE (noun)
  The noun INFLAMMATORY DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a disease characterized by inflammation

  Familiarity information: INFLAMMATORY DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFLAMMATORY DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease characterized by inflammation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("inflammatory disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Meronyms (parts of "inflammatory disease"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inflammatory disease"):

NEC; necrotizing enterocolitis (an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow)

gastroenteritis; intestinal flu; stomach flu (inflammation of the stomach and intestines; can be caused by Salmonella enteritidis)

pelvic inflammatory disease; PID (inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia); symptoms are abdominal pain and fever and foul-smelling vaginal discharge)

empyema (a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity))

pleurisy (inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer))

pyelitis (inflammation of the renal pelvis)

pharyngitis; raw throat; sore throat (inflammation of the fauces and pharynx)

angina (any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain)

arthritis (inflammation of a joint or joints)

acne (an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones)

urinary tract infection (any infection of any of the organs of the urinary tract)

 Context examples 

It can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)

A subacute or chronic inflammatory disease of muscle and skin, marked by proximal muscle weakness and a characteristic skin rash.

(Dermatomyositis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Pelvic inflammatory disease is usually caused by a bacterial infection.

(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NCI Dictionary)

If untreated, the infection may lead to pelvic inflammatory disease.

(Gonorrhea, NCI Thesaurus)

If untreated, it can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, which causes problems with pregnancy and infertility.

(Gonorrhea, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Sometimes, taking synthetic hormone medicine to treat an inflammatory disease leads to Cushing's.

(Cushing's Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

In women, infection of the reproductive system can lead to pelvic pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).

(Chlamydia Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease, otulipenia, that primarily affects young children.

(Researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease, NIH)

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an infection and inflammation of the uterus, ovaries, and other female reproductive organs.

(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Rare chronic inflammatory disease involving the small blood vessels.

(Behcet syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)