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inflammation - 7 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | inflammation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | redness, swelling |
| Synonyms: | burning, infection, irritation, pain, rash, sore, tenderness |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, hemorrhage, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, plague, seizure, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, upset, virus, visitation, convulsions, flu, ill health, pathosis, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malady |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, bug*, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder, distemper, epidemic, fever, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus, flu, ill health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pimple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small swelling on the skin |
| Synonyms: | abscess, acne, blemish, blister, boil, bump, carbuncle, excrescence, inflammation, lump, spot, zit*, beauty spot, blackhead, caruncle, furuncle, hickey, papula, papule, pustule, whitehead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | swelling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical growth; lump |
| Synonyms: | abscess, blister, boil, bruise, bulge, bump, carbuncle, contusion, dilation, distention, enlargement, hump, increase, inflammation, injury, knob, node, pimple, pock, protuberance, puff, ridge, sore, tumor, wale, wart, welt, bunion, corn, knurl, nodule, puffiness, pustule, tumescence, weal |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | irritation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensitivity |
| Synonyms: | inflammation, irritability, susceptibility, tenderness, excitability, hypersensitivity, oversensitiveness, oversensitivity, rawness, soreness, susceptibleness, tenseness |
| Main Entry: | aggravation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worsening of a situation, |
| Synonyms: | exacerbation, exaggeration, increase, inflammation, condition deepening, heightening, inflaming, intensification, magnification, sharpening, strengthening, worsening |
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