in Medicine and Surgery, a redness and swelling of any part of the body, attended with heat, pain, &c. See Medicine Index.

INFLAMMATION of Oils by concentrated Acids. See Chemistry, No. 876 and 893.

INFLEXION, formed from in and flexus; of flo, "I blow;" blowing up, the act of stretching or filling any flaccid or distensible body with a flatulent or windy substance.