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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inflammatory/ɪnˈflamətri/

▶adjective

1 relating to or causing inflammation.

2 arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings: inflammatory language.

'inflammatory' also found in these Oxford entries:

anti-inflammatory - cortisone - Crohn's disease - dexamethasone - glucocorticoid - gonorrhoea - histamine - ibuprofen - -itis - lupus erythematosus - mast cell - naproxen - pelvic inflammatory disease - PID

Forum discussions with the word(s) "inflammatory" in the title:

evasion of the host chronic inflammatory reaction.
inflammatory-related or inflammation-related
would not be inflammatory

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