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☆☆☆☆☆Inflammation is your body's natural response to harmful stimulants, damaged cells, irritants, infection, and injury: it's an attempt to stop the damage, protect your cells, remove the harmful stimuli, and start the healing process. When you get a cut or other injury, you can see inflammation in action. When an injury happens, your body releases chemicals and white blood cells into your bloodstream, ready to attack and kill invading bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microbial invaders. The redness and swelling around the wound shows that your blood vessels are expanding, bringing in white blood cells and antibodies to fight the infection, along with proteins and other nutrients to repair the damage.
"Inflammation" is from the Latin word inflammatio, which means to set on fire, and warmth, along with swelling and pain, is a feature of inflammation.
Without inflammation, your wounds and infections will not heal. So inflammation is beneficial, or even essential, —up to a point. All that swelling and repair work can be painful (which is why anti-inflammatory medicines, such as ibuprofen, are effective painkillers). Unfortunately, although anti-inflammatory drugs can suppress symptoms temporarily, they don't cure the underlying problem. And prolonged or chronic inflammation can lead to diseases. Chronic inflammation is now recognized as a type of non-specific immune response.
A group of cells that are all alike and that function together is called a tissue. A group of tissues that function together is called an organ.
Any amount of caffeine has the possibility to cause wrinkles. Other factors contribute to wrinkles such as smoking, sun exposure, and age.
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homeostasis
Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow.
Social behavior consists of complex interactions within groups.
Not that I know of, but it does contain chemicals that heal minor wounds such as small cuts and mouth pimples :)
Respiration happens all the time, 24/7, in all living organisms.
The nose warms and moisturizes the air you breath in. It could be that the cool dry air coming directly from the mouth is drying the throat and irritating it.
Alternately, it could be that the reason for the mouth breathing is that the nasal passages are stuffy and mucus from them is dripping into the throat at night when you lie back (post nasal drip). This can be irritating.
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