inflammable (in-flam'ma-ble)

Capable of being easily ignited. inflammation (in-flam-a's hun). "The local adaptive changes in ti ues resulting from actual or referred injury" (Adami). The injury may be bacterial, chemical, thermal, actinic, electric, mechanical, or suggested, and the irritated and damaged ti ues still retain their vitality, acute i. The changes which begin by a temporary contraction and later a permanent dilatation of the arterioles, accompanied by an emigration of the neutrophilic leukocytes, and occasionally of the eosinophilic leukocytes and the lymphocytes, from the capillaries and small veins into the ti ues. The plasma and red blood corpuscles may also infiltrate the ti ues by diapedesis. These changes are accompanied by heat, redne , swelling, pain, and impaired function of the inflamed area, adhesive i. A form of i. accompanied by plastic exudation and tending to cause adhesion of adjacent surfaces, articular i. See arthritis, asthenic i. An i. which affects parts that are poorly nourished and disposed to degenerations. The asthenic i's arise from slight irritations, and include most forms of chronic i. capsular i. The formation of a capsule of connective ti ue around an inert foreign body, catarrhal i. An inflammation of a mucous membrane accompanied with increased secretion by mucous cells and a proliferation of epithelial cells as well as exudation of a few pus cells, cellulocutaneous i. Syn.: phlegmonous i.,