inflammatory disease - a disease characterized by inflammationdisease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning NEC, necrotizing enterocolitis - an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow 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) 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 |