inflammage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from inflammaging, equivalent to a blend of inflammation + age.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
inflammage (third-person singular simple present inflammages, present participle inflammaging, simple past and past participle inflammaged)
- (intransitive) To age or accelerate in age-like symptoms due to the effects of inflammation.
- 2016, Dr. Jennifer Stagg, Unzip Your Genes:
- Apparently, we are genetically programmed to age, and it appears even to inflammage.