Keloid

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  • noun. A red, raised formation of fibrous scar tissue caused by excessive tissue repair in response to trauma or surgical incision.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as cheloid and kelis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin, or to keloid scar tissue.
  • noun. A keloid tumor.
  • noun. An abnormally large scar tissue growing at the site of a cut or surgical incision.
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  • noun. A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.
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  • noun. raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair
  • Word Usage
    "The growth usually takes its start from some injury or lesion of continuity; for instance, at the site of burns, cuts, acne and smallpox scars, etc. -- _cicatricial keloid, false keloid_; or it may also, so it is thought, originate in normal skin -- _spontaneous keloid, true keloid_."
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    cicatrice  cicatrix  scar  
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