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Scarring vs Keloid - What's the difference?

scarring | keloid |

As nouns the difference between scarring and keloid

is that scarring is a scar; a mark while keloid is (pathology) a hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.

As a verb scarring

is .

scarring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scar; a mark.
    • We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. — Tyndall.

    keloid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.

    • Derived terms

    * keloidal * keloidosis