overheal
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English overhelen, equivalent to over- + heal (“to cover”).
Alternative forms
Verb
overheal (third-person singular simple present overheals, present participle overhealing, simple past overhole, past participle overholen)
- (transitive, obsolete) To cover over.
Etymology 2
Verb
overheal (third-person singular simple present overheals, present participle overhealing, simple past and past participle overhealed)
- (intransitive) To heal over.
- (intransitive) To heal excessively or beyond the point of normal healing, usually resulting in the formation of scar tissue.
- 2011, Song Li, Nicolas L'Heureux, Jennifer Elisseeff, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering:
- First, the tissues can heal slowly and inadequately. Second, the tissues can overheal and deposit and overabundance of fibrotic wound matrix […]
- 2011, Song Li, Nicolas L'Heureux, Jennifer Elisseeff, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering: