Inflammation and Wound healing

Question 1

What is acute inflammation?

Answer 1

inflammation of sudden onset and of short duration

Question 2

what is chronic inflammation?

Answer 2

inflammation that lasts a long time

Question 3

What is inflammations main role? is it beneficial? when does it become harmful? and example of this?

Answer 3

• protective role and
• generally beneficial
• when process becomes uncontrollable
• pulomonary TB elicits protective tissue reaction that can erode pulmonary vessels causing massive bleeding