How does a wound know when to stop healing?

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A gash closes up and forms a scar but how does it know when to stop? How can, for example, a whole part of your liver be removed and it just grows back without filling your whole abdomen with liver tissue

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Sometimes it doesn’t! Google proud flesh in horses. Seems it can happen in humans too. I’m only familiar with it from wound care in equines though.

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