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• n  a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
• n  red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

• There's a redness around Weissman's lips, but nothing a little makeup won't cover up.
• The vaccine was studied in more 5,000 infants, who showed only minor side effects, including fever, redness and swelling at the injection site.
• Those are vasoconstrictors designed to reduce redness and should not be used for more than a few days, since they can trigger a rebound effect, increasing redness.

• inflammation
• rubor
• red

News & Articles

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• Local Woman Provides Permanent Makeup at Hair Therapy
  The photos show the after shots of a permanent eyebrow application. The after shot was taken immediately after the procedure, which is why there is some redness a slight swelling. The color will tone down by 30 percent when fully healed within 6-8 weeks.
  June 12, 2013 - Valley City Times Record

Quotes

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• Amitabh Bachchan in NDTV.com
  I wish to fill my eyes today with flaming anger of the redness of the blood of the innocents of my countrymen,writes Amitabh Bachchan in his latest blog posted on late Saturday.
• Thucydides in Business Mirror
  Thucydides wrote of "people in good health [who] were all of a sudden attacked by violent heats in the head, redness and inflammation in the eyes, the inward parts, such as the throat or tongue, becoming bloody and emitting an unnatural and fetid...
• LISA Faulkner in Aberdeen Press and Journal
  I'd had courses of tetracycline pills in the past when I'd been filming,Lisa explains. "They help take the redness down, but I just hate taking them."