noun a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue verb mark with a scar noun an indication of damage Etymologies from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition [Middle English, alteration of escare, from Old French, scab, from Late Latin...
Most common reasons for a spay incision lump: Stitches. You may be feeling one of the layers of stitches that are under the skin. Scar tissue. It's not uncommon to feel fibrous scar tissue near a spay incision. A knot of suture material. Vets will usually use stitches that should dissol...
@pastanaga - It's still a risk though. My mother had to have a lump removed a while ago and the scar tissue really bothers her. It is very itchy a lot of the time and it can also pull painfully if she moves in the wrong way. She's asked the doctors but they don't think ther...
A 3 cm × 3 cm, firm non-mobile swelling was present on anterior abdominal wall below umbilicus. Skin over the swelling was adherent and discolored [Figure 1]. Clinical diagnosis of soft-tissue tumor was offered and cytology study was advised. Abdominal sonography of patient revealed a poorly...
FOOTBALL; Maresh gets happy news: lump in calf is scar tissue.(SPORTS)Youngblood, Kent
The former usually presents with symptoms like higher blood perfusion and itch, while the latter appears as insignificant blood perfusion, dark color, and apparent lump which is similar to tumor. Atrophic scars are recessed below the skin surface, exhibiting generalized cutaneous atrophy resulting from...
pierced horizontally under the keloid with a relatively wide needle (if I'm not wrong, the top skin is not the problem; it is under the skin) and passed through it liquid nitrogen (so the nitrogen exited and was collected), just freezing and thus killing the tissue directly under it. Th...
Scar tissue replaces normal skin tissue after the skin is damaged. Though scar tissue is made up of the same substance as undamaged skin, it looks different because of the way the fibers in the tissue are arranged. Scars form every time the skin is damaged beyond its first layer, whether...
@pastanaga - It's still a risk though. My mother had to have a lump removed a while ago and the scar tissue really bothers her. It is very itchy a lot of the time and it can also pull painfully if she moves in the wrong way. She's asked the doctors but they don't think ther...