healing factor
Wounds close themselves
A healing factor is an ability, typically in comic books and science fiction, to recover from injuries at superhuman speed.
Characters with a healing factor can survive wounds that would kill ordinary people—regenerating tissue, purging toxins, even regrowing limbs: Wolverine's healing factor lets him shrug off gunshot wounds.
The term has spread to gaming and casual use for any rapid recovery mechanism.
- regenerationBiological self-repair process
- wolverineStocky northern forest carnivore
- mutantGenetically altered organism
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- woundsBodily tissue damage
open wounds · rapid · superhuman · immortal · tissue · scar tissue · scars · cells · cell regeneration · invincible · mutation · flesh · mending · indestructible · blood · damage · restore · accelerated
- superpowerstelekinesis, telepathy, superpower, invisibility, force powers
- X-MenX-Men, Wolverine, Magneto, Cyclops, Storm
- invincibilityshield, armor, bulletproof, immortality, divine protection
- Spider-Man powersspider-sense, wall climbing, danger sense
healing factordegenerative condition
Disease causing gradual decline
accelerated aging · progressive disease · degeneration · deterioration · autoimmune disorder
healing factorAchilles heel
Singular fatal vulnerability
fatal flaw · fragility · susceptibility · vulnerability · mortality
heal, healer, heals, healed, health, healthy, healthier, healthiest, healthily