scar tissue
noun
: the connective tissue forming a scar and composed chiefly of fibroblasts in recent scars and largely of dense collagenous fibers in old scars
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The recent playoff flameouts have certainly produced plenty of scar tissue and added to the pressure that these 2025 Ravens face heading into the season.
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Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 28 July 2025
New technology is improving implants; however, Lampert says some women who had the surgery decades ago are now experiencing pain, ruptures, and discomfort from scar tissue.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2025
What's more, the team found the device worked fine as an implant for four weeks, even after scar tissue formed around it.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 10 July 2025
And then, after missing all of ’21 with a torn ACL, Dobbins opted for arthroscopic surgery to clean up scar tissue in the middle of 2022.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
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Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 28 July 2025
New technology is improving implants; however, Lampert says some women who had the surgery decades ago are now experiencing pain, ruptures, and discomfort from scar tissue.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2025
What's more, the team found the device worked fine as an implant for four weeks, even after scar tissue formed around it.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 10 July 2025
And then, after missing all of ’21 with a torn ACL, Dobbins opted for arthroscopic surgery to clean up scar tissue in the middle of 2022.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
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“Scar tissue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scar%20tissue. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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