GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Keloid (?), a. [Also spelled cheloid.] [F. kéloïde, from Gr. χηλή crab's claw + -oid: cf. F. kéloïde, chéloïde.]  (Med.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin, or to keloid scar tissue.
   
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   Keloid, n. [Also spelled cheloid.]
   1. A keloid tumor.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
   
   
   2. An abnormally large scar tissue growing at the site of a cut or surgical incision.
   
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