Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.
"Causing inflammation." Many acne lesions may become inflamed because of bacteria trapped in the follicles. Comedones are associated with redness and irritation of the skin.
Inflammation is the reaction of living tissues to infection, irritation or other injury. Inflamed tissues are characterised by redness, swelling, warmth and pain. Anything that stimulates the inflammatory response is said to be inflammatory.
pertaining to inflammation including swelling, pain, tenderness, redness of the area
causing swelling of body tissue
A word that means "causing inflammation." In acne, "inflammatory" is usually used to describe lesions that are inflamed by chemical reactions or bacteria in clogged follicles.
response of a tissue to injury or infection.
Refers to inflammation, a protective response of the body tissues to injury or irritation. Signs of inflammation are redness, swelling, warmth, pain, and loss of function.
pertaining to inflammation. Inflammation is the process whereby the body reacts to injury or abnormal stimulants.
Having to do with inflammation (redness, swelling, pain, and a feeling of heat that helps protect tissues affected by injury or disease).
Characterized or caused by swelling, redness, heat and/or pain produced in an area of the body as a result of irritation, injury or infection.