Scab
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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MAR
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"

PIT
A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

SET
Several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press"

STY
A pen for swine

WEN
A common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

RAT
Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse

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FINK
Take the place of work of someone on strike

BLEB
(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

BOIL
The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they brought the water to a boil"

BUBO
A genus of Strigidae

FLAW
An imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness

HEAL
Get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"

KIBE
Ulcerated chilblain on the heel

KINK
An eccentric idea

KNIT
A basic knitting stitch

MOLE
Small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet

PILE
A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

POCK
A pustule in an eruptive disease

RIFT
A narrow fissure in rock

SCAB
Form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab"

SCAR
Mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"

SORE
An open skin infection

WALE
Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship

WARP
A twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

WART
(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

WEAL
A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

WELT
A raised or strengthened seam

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BLAIN
An inflammatory swelling or sore

BULLA
The round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull

CHECK
The act of inspecting or verifying; "they made a check of their equipment"; "the pilot ran through the check-out procedure"

CRACK
The act of cracking something

CRAZE
A fine crack in a glaze or other surface

CRUST
The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

FAULT
Put or pin the blame on

FELON
Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

NEVUS
A blemish on the skin that is formed before birth

PILES
A large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"

POLYP
One of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth; "in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase"

SCALE
A flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals

SHELL
The hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

SPLIT
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

TRACK
Carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into the house"

TWIST
Twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"

ULCER
A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue

WHEAL
A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

WHELK
Large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell

WOUND
The act of inflicting a wound

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BUNION
A painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe

CANKER
A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst"

COMEDO
A black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin

CRATER
A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus

DEFACE
Mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"

DEFECT
A failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"

DEFORM
Become misshapen; "The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake"

ESCHAR
A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin

FESTER
A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus

HICKEY
A temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover

KELOID
Raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair

LESION
Any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part

MILIUM
A small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland

PAPULA

PAPULE
A small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox)

PIMPLE
A small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne

RISING
Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

STIGMA
A skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease

CRUSTY
Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

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ABSCESS
Symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

BEDSORE
A chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients)

BLEMISH
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"

BLISTER
(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

CHANCRE
A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

CLOSEUP
Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"

DISTORT
Affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"

ENCRUST
Form a crust or a hard layer

FISTULA
An abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface

FRECKLE
A small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin

GUMBOIL
A boil or abscess on the gums

INCRUST
Form a crust or a hard layer

LENTIGO
A small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin

PARULIS

PUSTULE
A small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus

SCARIFY
Break up; "scarify soil"

SCRATCH
(golf) a handicap of zero strokes; "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"

VERRUCA
(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

VESICLE
A small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

WHITLOW
A purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail

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APOSTEME

CICATRIX
A mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

COLDSORE
Caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)

DESERTER
A person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)

FURUNCLE
A painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

HEALOVER

LORICATE

PETECHIA
A minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever)

PIECRUST
Pastry used to hold pie fillings

POCKMARK
A scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease

SCABOVER

SWELLING
The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

TUBERCLE
A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

BLACKLEG
Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike