Preposition: in

• nature: Advances One of the most important advances in the management of asthma today has been the acceptance that this disease is inflammatory in nature.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• do: It was very interesting - we had to make sure we didn't do anything inflammatory, however tempting it was.

Modifies a noun

• cytokines: Ultimately, its activation triggers the induced expression of numerous target genes coding for inflammatory cytokines ( cf.

• mediator: The medical term for these compounds is ' inflammatory mediators ' .

• arthritis: What effects can inflammatory arthritis have on my feet?

• infiltrate: The second major histological feature is the inflammatory infiltrate.

• disease: Surgery The majority of patients with inflammatory bowel disease never require surgery.

• myositis: In severe cases, when the muscles of the heart are affected, inflammatory myositis can even be fatal.

Modifying Another Word

• racially: Stop racially inflammatory BNP broadcast 24 May 2004 Forwarded alert from BLINK.

• deliberately: As a result of their failings, deliberately inflammatory comments will only cloud a problem which is on its way to being resolved.

• potentially: He said: " We will have to be circumspect about how we do this in potentially inflammatory situations.

• highly: Details of highly inflammatory messages posted on a website are also being looked at by the force.

• particularly: His Latin American axis with Fidel Castro is obviously particularly inflammatory.

• so: This fixture is so inflammatory that even mascots are banned.

Used with adjective complement

• stop: Stop racially inflammatory BNP broadcast 24 May 2004 Forwarded alert from BLINK.