scar
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Fibrosis occurs when repeated injury causes scar tissue to build up in the liver.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
She bore a large scar on her face when she met with AFP at her home in Bethlehem, holding a stuffed fox that had belonged to her son.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
His condition later progressed to myelofibrosis, which causes scar tissue to develop in the bone marrow.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
The images show the rapid expansion of the burn scar as the wildfire spread.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Scars marked the snout, but one scar stood out from the rest—the letter M, with loopy humps like cursive.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
The paranoid body fought itself while seeking out danger, leaving lasting scars in the process.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The scars lasted for decades, especially for the families of those killed, or those who were there and survived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The British Heart Foundation explains, external a cardiac arrhythmia ablation involves using heat or cold energy to create tiny scars in the heart to block faulty signals and restore a typical heartbeat.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Sunday afternoon for west central Los Angeles County — including for the Franklin and Palisades burn scars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
“The scars last longer than the game, you see,” Tsukiko says, straightening her kimono around her shoulders.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
However, Mac Cionnaith said the people of the Garvaghy Road have been scarred by events of the past and do not want another Drumcree parade.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Even before ensnaring Ruffo, the ever-expanding huachicol fiscal scandal had already scarred the Mexican navy, long one of the nation’s most trusted institutions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
How unnerving that its creation scarred its creator.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Their elders, who are more numerous and much richer, remain scarred by the bull market of the 1980s, which crashed in 1990 leaving lost decades in its wake.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
They blew on her skin, but in spite of their care Nhamo’s feet had blistered and scarred.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Flash flooding in Arizona recently swept through the Grand Canyon, killing at least two people, a weather event that was exacerbated by wildfire scarring, drought and warming temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
When coal dust is repeatedly inhaled over time, it causes scarring in the lungs that makes it difficult to breathe.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
When cracks began scarring the structure and the front steps started to sink shortly after its 1922 opening, some people feared that nothing would stop the descent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"She's now on antibiotics, she's had water infections, she has got scarring on her kidneys because of this," Kayley says.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
He laid the foundation incorrectly, so that it wasn’t long before cracks began to branch over the walls, scarring the iconography.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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