In·flam·ma·to·ry a.
1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
3. Med. Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.
Inflammatory crust. Med. Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy.
Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
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