Crossword-Solution: KELOID
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Keloid | a. | Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin. |
| Keloid | n. | A keloid tumor. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| KELOID | anagram | DOLIKE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “KELOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Thick scar | 1 answer |
| raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury | 1 answer |
| type of scar tissue | 1 answer |
| Scar | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with KELOID (5)
There seems to be a disposition in certain families and individuals to keloid-formations, and among negroes keloids are quite common, and often of remarkable size and conformation.
The form of injury causing the cicatrix is no factor in the production of keloid, the sting of an insect, the prick of a needle, and even the wearing of ear-rings having been frequent causes of keloid-formations among the negro race.
This case was quite remarkable for the predisposition shown to keloid at an early age, and the variety of factors in causation.
The fibrous overgrowths in the skin, known as _keloid_ and _molluscum fibrosum_, and those met with in the _sheaths of nerves_, are described elsewhere.
Spontaneous healing finally takes place after the caseous tubercle has been extruded; the resulting scars are extremely unsightly, being puckered or bridled, or hypertrophied like keloid.
Quotes with KELOID (1)
I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1975).