Which description matches Chronic Inflammation?

• A. Acute Inflammation
• B. Subacute Inflammation
• C. Chronic Inflammation
• D. No Inflammation

Answer: (C)

Chronic inflammation lasts for a long time, with immune activity that persists for months or years and ongoing tissue injury alongside repair. It’s dominated by mononuclear cells such as macrophages and lymphocytes rather than a rapid neutrophil surge, and it can lead to fibrosis (scarring) as trying to repair the damage continues. In some diseases, granulomas may form as a way the body walls off persistent irritants.

So the description that matches chronic inflammation describes a long‑lasting inflammatory process with continuous damage and repair and non-neutrophil–predominant cells. Acute inflammation, by contrast, is rapid and neutrophil-driven with edema and exudate; subacute is intermediate in duration; no inflammation would mean no inflammatory response at all.