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your body lighting a bonfire to kill the intruder, then forgetting to put it out
means The body's protective response to injury or infection, marked by redness, heat, swelling, and pain as the immune system rushes in to defend and repair the affected area.
from From Latin 'inflammare,' to set on fire, built from 'in-' (into) plus 'flamma' (flame) — the same flame that flickers through 'flammable' and 'flamboyant.' Ancient physicians, watching a wound turn red, hot, and angry, quite literally saw fire in the flesh, and the metaphor was honest enough to outlive them.
five signsheat, pain, redness, swelling, lost function — named by Romans
chronic killerlinked to heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's
redness reasonblood vessels widen to flood the wound with troops
the wordfrom Latin inflammare, meaning to set on fire
fever allyraising body heat literally cooks invading pathogens