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inflammatory response [in¦flam·ə‚tȯrē ri′späns]

(immunology)

A nonspecific defensive reaction of the body to invasion by a foreign substance or organism that involves phagocytosis by white blood cells and is often accompanied by accumulation of pus and an increase in the local temperature.

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