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Sports Medicine: Chapter 10 - Tissue Response to Injury

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Inflammation

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serves as a mechanism initiating the elimination of noxious agents and of damaged tissue.

5 signs: pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function

Vasoconstriction

the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, in particular the large arteries and small arterioles.

the widening of blood vessels. It results from relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, in particular in the large veins (called venodilators), large arteries, and smaller arterioles.

the process by which a cell engulfs particles such as bacteria, other microorganisms, aged red blood cells, foreign matter, etc.

Acute (relating to injury)

a measure of the time scale of a disease and is in contrast to "subacute" and "chronic."