1.
[syn: keloid, cheloid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Keloid \Ke"loid\, a. [Also spelled cheloid.] [F.
k['e]lo["i]de, from Gr. chhlh` crab's claw + -oid: cf. F.
k['e]lo["i]de, ch['e]lo["i]de.] (Med.)
Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular
excrescences upon the skin, or to keloid scar tissue.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Keloid \Ke"loid\, 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.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
keloid
n 1: raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury;
results from excessive tissue repair [syn: keloid,
cheloid]