Keloid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A red, raised formation of fibrous scar tissue caused by excessive tissue repair in response to trauma or surgical incision.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin, or to keloid scar tissue.
  • n. A keloid tumor.
  • n. An abnormally large scar tissue growing at the site of a cut or surgical incision.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as cheloid and kelis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair
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    scar    cicatrix    cicatrice   
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