How to Use scar tissue in a Sentence
scar tissue
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This then reduced the amount of scar tissue found at the site of the injury.
— Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Nov. 2021 -
That setback, though, turned out to be scar tissue from the surgery.
— Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2018 -
That’s the world Painter is going to live in for the next eight months, and the scar tissue is very real.
— Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023 -
But there is a lot of painful and itchy scar tissue with healing from that.
— Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2021 -
There was a good bit of scar tissue that had formed from the burst that also had to be removed.
— Jacqueline Andriakos, SELF, 16 Oct. 2018 -
They were found to have a severe scar tissue on the liver, the news station.
— Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 19 Mar. 2018 -
Each time, bands of scar tissue would return within six months to a year, and the pain would too.
— Gideon Gil, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021 -
The raw skin will spur the cells to regenerate and form scar tissue.
— Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021 -
Now, to get to the specifics: There are edges that act as muscle scrapers to work through tight scar tissue.
— Sara Coughlin, SELF, 6 Jan. 2023 -
The injury is healed, but scar tissue still needs to be broken down.
— Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2021 -
The scar tissue formed after a cyst was removed many years ago.
— Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021 -
But just trying to keep it [healthy] and breakthrough that scar tissue that’s still there.
— BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2021 -
It can be slowed, but nothing can remove the scar tissue.
— The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 11 Mar. 2018 -
As children grow, their scar tissue doesn’t grow with them.
— Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2019 -
White scar tissue, the size of a pencil eraser, is all that remains.
— Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Dec. 2022 -
This type of surgery can also target cysts and scar tissue.
— Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF, 25 Sep. 2019 -
Shining a light through the pupil creates scar tissue that the retina can reattach to.
— Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023 -
Both Vaseline and Aquaphor will protect the skin and keep the scar tissue hydrated.
— Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022 -
Some women need surgery to remove the scar tissue and address the pain, Dr. Shepherd says.
— Korin Miller, SELF, 18 Sep. 2019 -
Van Ness Obviously the scar tissue from all of that is still very present.
— refinery29.com, 15 June 2018 -
King said that dry brushing won’t get rid of cellulite or scar tissue.
— Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 10 Mar. 2023 -
There was a slight scar on the buck’s hide, but two solid handfuls of scar tissue around the wound underneath.
— Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 10 Dec. 2020 -
But the more scar tissue that forms, the less functional a liver becomes.
— Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 10 May 2018 -
The ship’s doctors told me that some appeared to have been brutally whipped, their backs a mess of scar tissue.
— Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019 -
The disease is not breast cancer but lymphoma that grows in the scar tissue surrounding the breasts.
— Matthew Perrone, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019 -
Oosthuizen has the most experience of the top three on the leaderboard but also the most scar tissue.
— New York Times, 17 July 2021 -
Certain drugs can help by reducing the amount of scar tissue.
— Cassie Shortsleeve, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022 -
To protect him, his body produced scar tissue that stiffened and blocked off his lungs.
— Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021 -
Over time, the man’s healthy liver cells had been replaced by scar tissue, and eventually, his liver stopped working.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024 -
The brain often reacts to the foreign material by building scar tissue around it, reducing the quality of the signal—and parts of the array may also degrade over time.
— Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
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