keloid

• cheloid (dated)

19th century, from French chéloïde, from Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ, “hoof”) and -oid.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkiː.lɔɪd]

keloid (plural keloids)

1. (pathology) A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.
   • 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula:

     It gave her otherwise plain face a broken excitement and blue-blade threat like the keloid scar of the razored man who sometimes played checkers with her grandmother.

keloid (third-person singular simple present keloids, present participle keloiding, simple past and past participle keloided)

1. (pathology, intransitive) To form a keloid.
   • 2013, Ann Pearlman, Colton Simpson, Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang‎^[1]:

     The scar on his neck from running through that plate glass on one of our licks has keloided smooth and shiny.

Borrowed from Dutch keloïd, from French chéloïde, from Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ, “hoof”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /keˈloid/ [keˈlo.ɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -oid
• Syllabification: ke‧lo‧id

keloid (plural keloid-keloid)

1. (dermatology, pathology) cheloid, keloid: a hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury

• “keloid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from English keloid, from French chéloïde, from Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ, “hoof”).

• IPA^(key): /kɛˈlɔ.it/
• Rhymes: -ɔit
• Syllabification: ke‧lo‧id

keloid m inan

1. (pathology) keloid

   Synonym: bliznowiec

• keloid in Polish dictionaries at PWN