Phlogosis
/fləˈɡoʊ.sɪs/noun
Inflammation or a burning redness of tissue.
Did you know?It ultimately comes from Greek phlox, phlog- meaning “flame,” the same ancient fire-root that gave English the scientific word phlogiston, once imagined as the hidden substance of combustion.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
GR
φλόγωσις (phlógōsis)
“burning, inflammation”
Ancient Greek
GR
φλόξ (phlóx)
“flame”
Late Greek / Medical Latin
LAT
phlogosis
“inflammation, especially a burning or fiery one”
17th–18th Century
EN
phlogosis
“a medical term for inflammation”
Modern English
EN
phlogosis
“inflammation”
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