What does scar mean?

Definitions for scar
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scar, cicatrix, cicatricenoun

    a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

  2. scratch, scrape, scar, markverb

    an indication of damage

  3. scar, mark, pock, pitverb

    mark with a scar

    "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SCARnoun

    A mark made by a hurt or fire; a cicatrix.

    Etymology: from eschar, escare, French; εσχάϱα.

    Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains
    Some scar of it. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

    The soft delicious air,
    To heal the scars of these corrosive fires,
    Shall breathe her balm. John Milton.

    It may be struck out of the omnisciency of God, and leave no scar nor blemish behind. More.

    This earth had the beauty of youth and blooming nature, and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. Burnet.

    In a hemorrhage from the lungs stypticks are often insignificant; and if they could operate upon the affected part, so far as to make a scar, when that fell off, the disease would return. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

  2. To Scarverb

    To mark as with a sore or wound.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
    Nor scar that whiter skin of her’s than snow,
    And smooth as monumental alabaster. William Shakespeare, Othello.

Wikipedia

  1. Scar

    Scar is a pop song written by the Australian singer Missy Higgins and Kevin Griffin of the American band Better Than Ezra. Released on 2 August 2004 on Eleven, it was the first single from Higgins' debut album The Sound of White. The single is her most successful thus far, entering the ARIA singles chart at #1 and going platinum.

ChatGPT

  1. scar

    A scar is a mark or indentation on the skin that remains after the healing of a wound, burn, or other injury. It is formed as part of the natural healing process, where fibrous tissue replaces normal tissue damaged by injury or disease. Scars can vary in appearance, size, color, and texture depending on the type, severity, and location of the injury.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scarnoun

    a mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement

  2. Scarnoun

    a mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary

  3. Scarverb

    to mark with a scar or scars

  4. Scarverb

    to form a scar

  5. Scarnoun

    an isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth

  6. Scarnoun

    a marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish

  7. Etymology: [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. skiaer, Sw. skr. Cf. Skerry.]

Wikidata

  1. Scar

    Scars are areas of fibrous tissue that replace normal skin after injury. A scar results from the biological process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. With the exception of very minor lesions, every wound results in some degree of scarring. An exception to this is animals with regeneration, which do not form scars and the tissue will grow back exactly as before. Scar tissue is the exact same protein as the tissue that it replaces, but the fiber composition of the protein is different; instead of a random basketweave formation of the collagen fibers found in normal tissue, in fibrosis the collagen cross-links and forms a pronounced alignment in a single direction. This collagen scar tissue alignment is usually of inferior functional quality to the normal collagen randomised alignment. For example, scars in the skin are less resistant to ultraviolet radiation, and sweat glands and hair follicles do not grow back within scar tissues. A myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, causes scar formation in the heart muscle, which leads to loss of muscular power and possibly heart failure. However, there are some tissues that can heal without any structural or functional deterioration.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scar

    skär, n. the mark left by a wound or sore: any mark or blemish: a cicatrice: (fig.) any mark resulting from injury, material or moral: (bot.) a mark on a stem after the fall of a leaf: in shells, an impression left by the insertion of a muscle: in founding, an imperfect place in a casting: a disfigurement.—v.t. to mark with a scar.—v.i. to become scarred:—pr.p. scar′ring; pa.t. and pa.p. scarred.—adjs. Scar′less, without scars: unwounded; Scarred. [O. Fr. escare—L. eschara—Gr. eschara, a scar produced by burning.]

  2. Scar

    skär, n. a precipitous bank or rock: a bare rocky place on the side of a hill.—n. Scar′-lime′stone, a mass of calcareous rock crowded with marine fossils. [Scand., Ice. skerskera, to cut.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. scar

    In hydrography applies to a cliff; whence are derived the names Scarborough, Scarnose, &c. Also, to rocks bare only at low water, as on the coasts of Lancashire. Also, beds of gravel or stone in estuaries.

  2. scar

    A place where cockles are gathered. (See SCAR.)

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scar in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of scar in a Sentence

  1. Jeffrey Veale:

    There was a lot of scar tissue, but I took the arteries and veins that extend out of it beyond the scar tissue so it was actually a fairly straightforward surgery to sew it into Ms. Boyce, so she has the kidney from original donor and blood vessels from the second.

  2. Tim Ryan:

    I got enough scar tissue on those fights to last me a lifetime.

  3. Marc Hellerstein:

    If you've reduced the scar formation rate by 50 percent, then you know that in a year or two that's going to add up.

  4. Jerry Deener:

    We knew very little because he wouldn't talk about it, he has a very big scar on his right side where he was hit.

  5. Matthew Murphy:

    Through treatment and reflection, I’ve come to feel deep shame and regret for my actions none of you deserved to be in this situation, i hope each of you could close that wound I gashed. I know though, that a scar will remain that will serve as a reminder of the evil of that.

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