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A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

Inflammation of the brain. -- En`ceph*a*lit"ic, a.

Inflammation of the endocardium.

Inflammation of the endometrium.

An inflammation of the intestines. Hoblyn.

Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.

rnal application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.

St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

igh degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.

A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.

A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.

To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.

stric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever. -- Gastric juice (Physiol.), a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of…

Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Inflammation of the tongue.

An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.