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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

inflammatoire

Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.

Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious;

as,

inflammatory

libels, writings, speeches, or publications

Burke.

(Med.)

Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action;

as, an

inflammatory

disease

Inflammatory crust

(Med.)

Same as

Buffy coat

, under

–

Inflammatory fever

a variety of fever due to inflammation.

Adj.

Inflaming; tending to excite heat or inflammation; as medicines of an inflammatory nature.

Accompanied with preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as an inflammatory fever or disease.

Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult or sedition; as inflammatory libels, writings, speeches or publications.