When tissue is injured, the body follows the same repair playbook every time — stop the bleeding, clean up, rebuild, remodel. Step through a healing wound.
Injury & bleeding
Injurystep 1 of 4
The healing sequence
Regeneration vs scar: tissues with dividing cells (skin, gut — labile; liver — stable) can regenerate the real thing. Tissues that can't divide (neurons, cardiac muscle — permanent) heal with a fibrous scar instead.
📷 Reference image
A real labeled figure to compare with the interactive above.
Tissue Repair — OpenStax, CC BY 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
