What is the red ring around a scab called?!


Question: If you cut yourself and are developing a scab, usually a red ring forms around it. What is this called, and why does this happen?


Answers: If you cut yourself and are developing a scab, usually a red ring forms around it. What is this called, and why does this happen?

Inflamation, it is your circulatory system trying to heal the wound, bringing wbcs, platelets, increased circulation and warmth to the site of the wound.
It can also be infection.

a scar

its called inflammation that will probally lead to disfiguration.





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