Questions tagged [healing]

Our bodies can repair quite a number of injuries very well. However, it takes time. For larger wounds, complete recovery can last many weeks. Why is this time so long, what is the most important limiting factor? The speed of cell division? I thought…

During healing of wound (almost in final stage) it begins to itch a lot around wound. I wondering what the reason for this is?

I burned my thumb lighting sparklers (fireworks) a few nights ago. I've been pleased with how it's healing, and have been especially impressed because it's not a scenario that really could have come up in our evolutionary history. Then I started…