Now, what exactly is inflammation? Well, inflammation is this process by which we have many different types of things take place as we'll see in just a moment. And these things together basically help us kill off the different types of invading pathogens that insert our tissue. So let's take a look at what actually happens and let's look at the following flowchart to basically help us guide through the process of inflammation. So let's suppose the pathogen essentially invades our tissue via some type of cut inside our skin. So the skin fails at preventing and acting as a physical barrier.