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[skahr]

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noun

a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.

a lasting aftereffect of trouble, especially a lasting psychological injury resulting from suffering or trauma.

any blemish remaining as a trace of or resulting from injury or use.

Botany. a mark indicating a former point of attachment, as where a leaf has fallen from a stem.

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verb (used with object)

to mark with a scar.

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verb (used without object)

to form a scar in healing.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; aphetic variant of eschar

Related forms

scar·less, adjective

un·scarred, adjective

Example Sentences

Scar revision is surgery to improve or reduce the appearance of scars.

The critics worry such behavior could scar the image of an education sector many still regard with skepticism.

Every one will receive a gastroscopy, recto-colonoscopy and peritonoscopy if an abdominal scar is discovered.

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Scar revision is surgery to improve or reduce the appearance of scars.

The critics worry such behavior could scar the image of an education sector many still regard with skepticism.

Every one will receive a gastroscopy, recto-colonoscopy and peritonoscopy if an abdominal scar is discovered.

Mines scar the landscape, leaking contaminants into the soil.

Small sugar fragments can set off a signal cascade that increases inflammation and scar formation.

Older males' chests are covered in thick carpets of scar tissue from countless tussles.

The dead cells are usually replaced by scar tissue, which can lead to congestive heart failure.

She had basically what you would call scar revision and facial reconstruction.

Any lasting damage from a drug study can scar them for life, if not accidentally kill them.

Joblessness can scar those who experience it, she worries.

With silicosis, the fine dust particles permanently scar the lung tissues.

Some treatments are not effective because of scar tissue.

From behind her, a beefy brute with a scar on his cheek clamps a meaty hand over her mouth.

Hell, it might not break, and that scar will be a badge of honor.

For others, it has served as a call to address the reasons fighters developed unstable scar tissue in the first place.

His scar tissue came from battles both actual and political.

Triebold walked me over to a raw scar in the brown sandstone.

The scar wall is thinner than that of surrounding healthy tissue.

Most of the people in my parents' generation have a scar from their small pox shot.

They cling to scar tissue, which is slick and difficult to cover.

There are indeed reasons to expect a financial crisis to scar growth.

One long, slender beam bears a deep scar from where someone tried to cut through it.

When tissue can't regenerate, it is replaced with scar tissue.

And she had to show that this slow-motion style of conflict can scar its combatants, too.

Pyeloplasty removes scar tissue from the blocked area and connects the healthy part of the kidney to the healthy ureter.

With so much scar tissue around, the confidence shown in the prospects for e-government may seem surprising.

Startled, she fled, leaving our fearless leader with a badly lacerated face-a scar that he continues to wear today.

Removing scar tissue with drugs, laying down scaffolds and inserting cells have all been tried with varying degrees of success.

Bruised or cut mammalian tissue reacts by producing scar tissue: tough, fibrous cells that quickly seal off an open wound.

The rest have to make do with a quick swipe across the knee with a scalpel, to mimic a surgery scar.

People with old spinal cord injuries have torn and detached tissues that have been encapsulated by scar tissue.

Although the scar tissue is still livid in places, there is a tangible sense of renewed confidence.

If the communication between the two cell types is blocked, the zebra fish heart starts to scar and cannot completely regenerate.

The way it ended the war could have been humane and that fact will scar this nation for ever.

The impact scar was originally discovered by an amateur astronomer.

Within days or weeks, scar tissue walls off electrodes, interrupting transmission.

My brother still has a scar on his neck from removal of a tubercular cyst.

In times of drought hydro dams leave an unsightly scar on the landscape.

Your vocal cords get thicker with scar tissue if you get nodules, and your voice gets lower.

After each mating about five to ten in a lifetime the wounds heal and leave scar tissue.

Keloids are the excess growth of scar tissue at the site of a healed skin injury.

The loss of life and its impact on this fine university no doubt will scar many for years to come.

Members of an extreme subculture scar their bodies with scorching-hot metal.

He has a scar on his right hand where he was stabbed.

The navel is the scar left where the base of the cord was attached to the abdominal wall.

But when there's an excessive buildup of scar tissue, a person will need a transplant.

Like a fast-festering abscess, it grew and burst and subsided, leaving a deep scar and the memory of pain.

Twenty-one years old and unmarried, he bore a scar on the left side of his neck and three prominent moles on his back.

One potential application of this feature is making bandages that stimulate the growth of regular skin instead of scar tissue.

They also found on the body the scar of a childhood mastoid operation mentioned in the military records.

Many of these tendon injuries become chronic, and involve microscopic tearing of the tendon and formation of scar tissue.

It has a blunt tip to make tiny cuts that break the scar tissue, transforming it into a biological mesh.

There will be no scar around your breast, but you may have a visible scar on the underside of your arm.

The pipeline burrows onward under a mound of raw earth-a monumental tribal scar creasing the barren landscape.

Johnson, who showed off his scar from gall bladder surgery in front of the.

It could disfigure them, scar them, or do some permanent damage.

So she wouldn't end up with that scar on her stomach that she shows off so proudly.

Scar tissue may form in the muscle of the ventricles days, months, or years after a heart attack.

Finally, maybe there was still some scar tissue that was occasionally obstructing the digestive tract.

Johnson's proud exhibition of a recent abdominal surgery scar into a drawing of the president showing a scar in the shape of.

Urethral stricture may be caused by inflammation or scar tissue from surgery, disease, or injury.

The drug coating significantly reduces the need for further procedures by reducing the scar tissue that can reblock arteries.

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noun British.

a precipitous, rocky place; cliff.

a low or submerged rock in the sea.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English skerre < Old Norse sker skerry

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World English Dictionary

scar¹ (skɑː)

—n
1.	any mark left on the skin or other tissue following the healing of a wound
2.	a permanent change in a person's character resulting from emotional distress: his wife's death left its scars on him
3.	the mark on a plant indicating the former point of attachment of a part, esp the attachment of a leaf to a stem
4.	a mark of damage; blemish

—vb , scars, scarring, scarred
5.	to mark or become marked with a scar
6.	(intr) to heal leaving a scar

[C14: via Late Latin from Greek eskhara scab]

scar² (skɑː)

—n
1.	an irregular enlongated trench-like feature on a land surface that often exposes bedrock
2.	a similar formation in a river or sea

[C14: from Old Norse sker low reef, skerry]

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Word Origin & History

scar

late 14c., from O.Fr. escare "scab," from L.L. eschara, from Gk. eskhara "scab formed after a burn," lit. "hearth, fireplace," of unknown origin. English sense probably influenced by M.E. skar (late 14c.) "crack, cut, incision," from O.N. skarð, related to score. Figurative

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sense attested from 1580s. The verb is first recorded 1550s. Related: Scarred; scarring.

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Medical Dictionary

scar (skär)
n.
The fibrous tissue that replaces normal tissue destroyed by injury or disease. v. scarred, scar·ring, scars

To mark with a scar or become marked with a scar.
To form scar.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

SCAR
Society for Computer Applications in Radiology

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