scar
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The body responds by forming scar tissue, but that scar does not contract like healthy heart muscle.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Some were busy roads and she has a scar on her right leg from a collision with a motorbike while she was running.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
For weeks afterward, she could barely look at the purplish scar running from her neck down her chest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
“It ignored the young patients who would be in her clinic, exposed to her speech, and susceptible to internalizing ideas that may scar them for life,” they wrote.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
I cannot carry one arm that the rest do; the scar on my forehead forbids that.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing scar
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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