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Abstract
A pathological process characterized by injury or destruction of tissues caused by a variety of cytologic and chemical reactions. It is usually manifested by typical signs of pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function.
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4 entry terms
- Inflammations
- Innate Inflammatory Response
- Inflammatory Response, Innate
- Innate Inflammatory Responses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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IM for general inflammatory process; terms for inflammation of specific organs usually expressed by the Greek root for the organ with the suffix -ITIS (pancreas inflammation = PANCREATITIS); if no specific inflammation term exists, coordinate the organ-disease term with INFLAMMATION (NIM) (parathyroid inflammation = PARATHYROID DISEASES + INFLAMMATION)
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- National Library of Medicine. Inflammation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007249. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007249
- Inflammation. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation
- Inflammation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101991