炎

Meaning

炎 centers on intense, rising fire: a flame or blaze, and by extension the heat and redness of inflammation.

• 炎ほのお
  N3

  flame; blaze

• 炎上えんじょう

  going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building)

• 炎症えんしょう

  inflammation; irritation

• 肺炎はいえん
  N1

  pneumonia

• 火炎かえん

  flame; blaze

• 肝炎かんえん

  hepatitis

• 陽炎かげろう

  heat shimmer; heat haze; shimmering of hot air

• 炎天下えんてんか

  under the blazing sun; in sweltering heat

• 鼻炎びえん

  rhinitis; coryza; nasal inflammation

• 火炎瓶かえんびん

  Molotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb

• 腱鞘炎けんしょうえん

  tenosynovitis

• 結膜炎けつまくえん

  conjunctivitis

• 脳炎のうえん

  brain inflammation; encephalitis; cerebritis

• 気管支炎きかんしえん
  N1

  bronchitis

• 胃炎いえん

  gastritis; gastric catarrh

• 中耳炎ちゅうじえん

  otitis media; middle-ear infection

• 虫垂炎ちゅうすいえん

  appendicitis

• 消炎しょうえん

  anti-inflammatory (substance)

• 膵炎すいえん

  pancreatitis

• 爆炎ばくえん

  flames produced by an explosion; explosive flames

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