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inflammation
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Cutting for Stone
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- Or was there, as he suspected, a mild, endemic inflammation along the passage that carried urine out?†
Part 2 *inflammation = swelling and redness
- The clinician has only to grab the patient's thigh, squeeze the quadriceps muscle, squeeze it hard: Patients with relapsing fever will jump up because of the otherwise silent muscle inflammation and tenderness that is part of this disease.†
Part 3
- Silver elicited the least inflammatory reaction from the tissues, inflammation being the reason a repair would break down.†
Part 3
- Isoniazid was also famous for causing severe liver inflammation.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(inflammation) swelling, redness, and other body tissue response to injury or infection
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, inflammation can reference a state of violent emotional arousal -- as in: "The crowd was in a state of extreme inflammation."