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Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy. [Written also, and more usually, tonsillitis.]

Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

Inflammation of the cæcum.

Inflammation of the ureter. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the urethra.

Inflammation of the uvula.

Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.

h as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.

Inflammation of a vesicle.

Inflammation of the vulva.

dotum). -- White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind. -- White tombac. See Tombac.…

An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.

A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long- continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.