What Is Inflammation? Types, Causes Treatment Inflammation is a normal part of your body’s response to injuries and invaders (like germs) It promotes healing and helps you feel better But inflammation that happens when there’s no injury or invader can harm healthy parts of your body and cause a range of chronic diseases
Inflammation - Wikipedia Inflammation (from Latin: inflammatio) is part of the biological defence response of body tissues
What is Inflammation? Causes, Effects, Treatment - Harvard Health Redness and heat, along with pain and swelling that result from an injury or infection, are evidence of the inflammatory process underway beneath the skin's surface Not visible but similar in process is the inflammation that results when you come down with an infection like the flu or pneumonia
Inflammatory - Wikipedia The word inflammatory is also used to refer literally to fire and flammability, and figuratively in relation to comments that are provocative and arouse passions and emotions