inflame

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The team found that immune cells themselves have their own glycocalyx and actively shed part of this sugar layer to move out of the blood and into inflamed skin in conditions such as psoriasis.

From Science Daily

"But their intervention when it came did little more than inflame tensions," she said.

From BBC

In reaction to Erdogan's comments, Somaliland's foreign ministry said that Turkey, which has in recent years become an important geopolitical player in the Horn of Africa, should refrain from inflaming regional tensions.

From BBC

Her approach, it was claimed, "inflames rather than calms a situation" and "creates a culture of fear and anxiety".

From BBC

IgAN causes the small filters in kidneys to become inflamed and excess protein in urine, known as proteinuria.

From The Wall Street Journal