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Definition: Scar Tissue |
Scar TissueNoun1. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Scar TissueSynonyms: cicatrice (n), cicatrix (n), scar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scar Tissue |
| English words defined with "scar tissue": abscission ♦ cheloid ♦ keloid ♦ photocoagulation ♦ trachoma. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scar tissue": Biliary Stricture ♦ cicatricial ectropion, cicatricial entropion, Cicatrix, Hypertrophic ♦ radiation fibrosis. (references) |
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Screenplays | Because if I do, the retinal scans will read the scar tissue, alarms will go off, and large men with guns will appear. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank) | |
Lyrics | Scar tissue that I wish you saw ("Scar Tissue"; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scar Tissue (1979) | |
Song Titles | Scar Tissue (performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) | |
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![]() | Cut surface of gross autopsy specimen of liver showing diffuse pallor due to dense network of scar tissue (fibrosis, cirrhosis). Scarring has occurred in response to chronic injury from alcohol abuse.Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Proliferative retinopathy, an advanced form of diabetic retinopathy, occurs when abnormal new blood vessels and scar tissue form on the surface of the retina.Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |
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Health | Some of these cells also form scar tissue after injury. (references) | |
More often, scar tissue may form in the urethra and cause narrowing. (references) | ||
In NASH, fat builds up in the liver and eventually causes scar tissue. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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| Language | Translations for "scar tissue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | crackan cronnagh. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | arscay issuetay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cuirasses, suitcases, suricates. | |
-2 letters: assister, casuists, cistuses, citruses, crassest, curtsies, rictuses, sacrists, sauciest, scariest, scissure, sucrases, suitcase, suricate. | |
-3 letters: actress, arcuses, ascesis, ascites, asserts, assures, aurists, caestus, casters, casuist, causers, cesuras, cristae, cruises, crusets, cuestas, cuirass, cuisses, curates, curites, cussers, cutises, ectasis, icterus, ictuses, issuers, raciest, racists, recasts, resists, risuses, russets, rustics, sacrist, sassier, satires, saucers, saucier, sauries, siestas, sisters, situses, stearic, sucrase, suiters, tassies, tissues, trasses, trusses, tussars, tussers. | |
-4 letters: acuter, acutes, airest, arises, assert, assets, assist, assure, asters, aurist, caress, carets, caries, carses, cartes, cassis, caster, castes, caters, causer, causes, cerias, cestas, cestus, cesura, cistus, citers, citrus, crases, crasis, crates, crests, crises, crissa, crista, cruets, cruise, cruses, cruset, crusts, cuesta, cuisse, curate, curets, curiae, curies, curite, curses, cusser, cusses, cuties, ericas, eructs, escars, estrus, issuer, issues, racist, raises, reacts, recast, rectus, recuts, resist, rictus, russet, rustic, saices, satire, saucer, sauces, sautes, scares, scarts, scaurs, scries, scutes, seracs, serais, siesta, sieurs, sister, sistra, sitars, stairs, stares, stases, stasis, steric, strass, stress, striae, sucres, suiter, suites, surest, sutras, tarsus, tasses, tassie, terais, tissue, traces, triacs, trices, truces, tsuris, tussar, tusser, tusses, tussis, urases, urates, uratic, uretic. | |
-5 letters: acres, acute, airts, arcus, areic, arise, arses, arsis, ascus, asses, asset, aster, astir, aurei, aures, auric, auris, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, cases, caste, casts, casus, cater, cates, cause, ceria, cesta, cesti, cires, cists, citer, cites, crass, crate, cress, crest, cries, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curia, curie, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutis, easts, ecrus, erica, eruct, escar, etuis, ictus, irate, issue, races, raise, rases, rates, react, recta, recti, recut, rests, retia, rices, rises, risus, rites, ruses, rusts, saice, saris, sates, satis, sauce, saute, scare, scars, scart, scats, scaur, scuta, scute, scuts, sears, seats, sects, serac, serai, sices, sieur, sires, sises, sitar, sites, situs, stair, stare, stars, sties, stirs, stria, sucre, suers, suets, suite, suits, suras, sutra, taces, tares, tarsi, tasse, tears, terai, tiers, tires, trace, trass, tress, triac, trice, tries, truce, trues, truss, tsars, uraei, urase, urate, ureas, ureic, ursae, users, uteri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: casuistries, crassitudes, secularists. | |
+2 letters: resuscitates, supremacists. | |
+3 letters: atrociousness, customariness, fractiousness, resuscitators. | |
+4 letters: resuscitations, subsecretaries. | |
+5 letters: atrociousnesses, customarinesses, fractiousnesses, inscrutableness, lucrativenesses, superspecialist, uncertainnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 61 72      54 69 73 73 75 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010100 01101001 01110011 01110011 01110101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c a r   T i s s u e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0061 0072      0054 0069 0073 0073 0075 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536967842547585858771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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