keloid
- n raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair
- Slash it with sharp instruments, rub ashes into the wound to make a keloid; daub it with clays, paint it with berry juices.
- Most of the scars seemed to result from the patients' burns, but there were puzzling exceptions: when a skin graft was taken from an unburned part of a patient's body, a keloid .
- For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue).