inflammatory disease

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Noun

inflammatory disease - a disease characterized by inflammation

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

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

urinary tract infection - any infection of any of the organs of the urinary tract

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Perricone explains that acne is not simply a teenage problem but an inflammatory disease that can start and persist long after adolescence.

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A: Over the past 15 years, molecular biology has taught us that atherosclerosis--or hardening of the arteries--is very much an inflammatory disease, the same way that arthritis and lupus are inflammatory diseases.

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The effects of undetected and untreated sexually transmitted diseases: pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy in Canada

In addition to conditions such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia that afflict HIV-infected people of both genders, women suffer gender-specific manifestations of HIV disease, such as recurrent vaginal yeast infections and pelvic inflammatory disease.

Women and HIV

Uveitis is an inflammatory disease affecting the uvea.

Akari Therapeutics to provide update on eye diseases program at ARVO

The just-discovered otulipenia is a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease that causes fever, skin rashes, diarrhea, and joint pain in young children, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., who also have identified anti-inflammatory treatments that ease some of the patients' symptoms and overall failure to grow or thrive.

NIH discovers new children's disease

No single test has adequate sensitivity and specificity to reliably identify pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and thus help to spare women serious sequelae, including infertility (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, based on systematic reviews of cohort studies and individual cohort studies).

Which tests are the most useful for diagnosing PID?

Inflammatory disease of the vascular bed of the lung is a major cause of illness and death for both adults and children.

Cell signaling in vascular inflammation

Women who have had pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) can reduce their risk of its recurrence if they use condoms consistently.

Barrier to pelvic disease

Before one is diagnosed with endometriosis, it is important to distinguish between this and other diseases, such as the rotating, twisting or turning of ovarian cysts or chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).

Endometriosis through the eyes of traditional chinese medicine

Moreover, immediate insertion does not drastically increase rates of perforation and pelvic inflammatory disease, the investigators said, Data from two of the largest and best designed studies showed that perforation occurred at a rate of approximately 1 per 1,000 insertions at the end of a 2-year follow-up period.