288 Inflammation. 



caught and with which it is carried away. Or the microbe may destroy 

 the cell, which itself then becomes a further source of irritation. The 

 cell may, it is true, desquamate from mere necrotic loss of adhesion to its 

 basement membrane ; but at times — and too soon to permit of classing 

 the phenomenon as anything but tlie result of an inflammatory prolifera- 

 tion — one or more young cells grow up at its base and dislodge the cell 

 with its bacterial burden, both being carried off by the fluid on the 

 surface (as in a proliferative catarrh). As far as the proliferative feature 

 of inflammation is concerned, it is essentially the same as the author has 

 detailed in the chapter on Regeneration ; regeneration is one part of 

 inflammation. Therefore it may be probably claimed that in some meas- 

 ure, often insignificant, it is true, but in some cases clear and well marked, 

 all the capabilities detailed as regenerative for parenchymatous cells are 

 possible for inflammation. One should therefore be willing to accept a 

 proliferative parenchymatous inHammatioii as well as the more striking 

 degenerative inflannnation, which alone may be inferred from the author's 

 paragraph as characterizing parenchymatous structures in the inflammatory 

 process. Moreover, from a theoretical standpoint, what has just been 

 said may be understood as indicating that parenchymatous cells are 

 capable of participating in all the ways ascribed to other fixed cells ; 

 practically they do not manifest such ability in a degree comparable to 

 that exhibited by the connective tissues. These features are considered 

 further on by the author, who would exclude as normal some of these 

 minor reactions.] 



The nomenclature and classification of inflammatory processes 

 include consideration^ of the retiology {traumatic, toxic, thermic, 

 infections inflammations) , the duration of the process {acute, sub- 

 acute, chronic) and the form of exudate and other anatomical fea- 

 tures {fibrinous, serous, purulent, etc.). 



The scientific name {terminus technicus) used to express an in- 

 flammation of an organ is constructed by adding to the root of the 

 Latin or Greek word for the organ tlie termination itis (really from 

 the feminine form of the major name ending in ,js) ; for example, 

 wXevpa., lining of chest' cavity, irXevptT-ns , one suffering in the pleura, 

 irXevpiTLs 1 supply vosds ) , inflammation of the pleura. In this way for 

 example are built up such words as : gastritis, inflammation of the 

 stomach; arthritis, inflammation of a joint; peritonitis, inflamma- 

 tion of the peritoneum ; osteitis, inflammation of bone, etc. In 

 case of inflammation of the serous covering of an organ the prefix 

 "peri" is added to flie name (irepl, about, around) ; in inflammation 

 of the connective tissue alongside of rn organ, the prefix "para" 

 (Trapa, alongside) ; for example metritis, perimetritis, parametritis. 

 Special names are applied to some inflanimations : pneumonia (not 

 pulmonitis) for pulmonary inflamniattqn,; angina for infl.amrnation 



