Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A red, raised formation of fibrous scar tissue caused by excessive tissue repair in response to trauma or surgical incision.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cheloid and kelis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A hard raised growth of
scar tissue at the site of aninjury .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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_.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The opposite end of the spectrum is something called a keloid, which is basically an extremely thick scar, and can actually look like a piece of rope.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com M.D. Robert Tornambe 2011
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FACTOID: A keloid is an overgrowth of skin that forms during scarring.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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FACTOID: A keloid is an overgrowth of skin that forms during scarring.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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FACTOID: A keloid is an overgrowth of skin that forms during scarring.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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FACTOID: A keloid is an overgrowth of skin that forms during scarring.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Results vary significantly, and recurrence of the keloid is a possibility.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com M.D. Robert Tornambe 2011
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Keloid Scar Tissue - A keloid is a type of swollen scar that grows much larger than other scars, appearing similar to a fibrous tumor.
unknown title 2009
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Keloid Scars - A keloid is a greatly enlarged scar that grows beyond its original boundaries to the point of appearing like a tumor.
unknown title 2009
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Keloid Scars - A keloid is a greatly enlarged scar that grows beyond its original boundaries to the point of appearing like a tumor.
unknown title 2009
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