Scarification
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Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art. The body modification can
Detailed facial scarification
Aeta man from the island of Luzon with a scarified form of indigenous Philippine tattoo, c. 1890s
Aboriginal Australian with scarification of the back, 1911
Tribal crocodile scarification done near the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea
Wound healing
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Wound healing refers to a living organism's replacement of destroyed or damaged tissue by newly produced tissue.
Scarification
…methods (sometimes using further sequential aggravating wound-healing methods at timed intervals, like irritation). Scarification is sometimes called cicatrization. Scarification has been traditionally practiced by darker skinned cultures, possibly because it is usually more visible on darker skinned people than…
Healing progression of a deep laceration wound on the shin with sutures over a five-week period
A fluorescence micrograph of cells in Drosophila larvae healing after a puncture wound. The arrow points to cells that have fused to form syncytia, and the arrowheads point to cells that are oriented to face the wound.
A scab covering a healing wound
Hand Abrasion 32 minutes after injury