Inflammation of mucous membranes with characteristic mucus discharge and inflammatory response.
From Greek 'blenna' (mucus) + 'phlogosis' (inflammation, burning condition). A medical term from 19th-century pathology describing inflammatory conditions of mucous tissues.
The Greek root 'phlogosis' appears in 'phlebotomy' and older medical terms—it was how ancient doctors described what we now know as the body's immune response, which they saw as a kind of internal burning.
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