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INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
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I. (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:
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an acute or chronic inflammation in the pelvic cavity.
(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include prostatitis, balanitis, phimosis, endometriosis, and pelvic inflammatory disease.
(Non-Neoplastic Reproductive System Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Douching may also cause other health problems, such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and problems during pregnancy.
(Douche, NCI Dictionary)
Pelvic inflammatory disease that develops in a patient with HIV/AIDS.
(AIDS-Related Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and endometritis.
(Female Non-Neoplastic Reproductive System Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called pelvic inflammatory disease.
(PID, NCI Dictionary)
Rare chronic inflammatory disease involving the small blood vessels; of unknown etiology and characterized by mucocutaneous ulceration in the mouth and genital region and uveitis with hypopyon; the neuroocular form may cause blindness and death; synovitis, thrombophlebitis, gastrointestinal ulcerations, retinal vasculitis, and optic atrophy may occur as well.
(Behcet syndrome, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
