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cicatrize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cicatrize \Cic"a*trize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cicatrized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Cicatrizing.] [Cf. F. cicatriser, fr.
cicatrice, L. cicatrix, scar.] (Med.)
To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in
wounded or ulcerated flesh.
--Wiseman.
Cicatrize \Cic"a*trize\, v. i. (Med.) To heal; to have a new skin.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context intransitive English) To form a scar. 2 (context transitive English) To treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To form a scar. 2 (context transitive English) To treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
WordNet
v. form a scar, after an injury; "the skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon" [syn: cicatrise]
Usage examples of "cicatrize".
Part of these wounds were cicatrized and part still granulating, which shows that the process of reparation is as active in utero as elsewhere.
The rectal opening gradually cicatrized, the sac became obliterated, and the woman left the hospital well.
The destruction of the parts was so complete and the opening so large as to bring into view the whole inner surface of the pelvis, in spite of which, after prolonged suppuration, the wound cicatrized from behind forward and health returned, except as regards the inconvenience of feces and urine.
The inferior parts of the cheeks were cicatrized with the lateral and superior regions of the neck, and with the base of the tongue and the hyoid bone.
Oncle Jazon chuckled reminiscently and scratched the skinless, cicatrized spot where his scalp had once flourished.
She thrust out her hand, showing a wicked scar, round, cicatrized, a deep depression in the flesh.
The rape had terribly cicatrized and battered the emotions of the romantic, adolescent Hortense beyond her capacity to survive.
So I must lie and gaze into the seared yellow face that hung over me, for it would drop so close that I could trace the cicatrized scar running from the left ear to the corner of the mouth, and drawing up the lip like the lip of a snarling cur.
To be brief, there was no sense of pain afterward: but within five or six dayes the wounds were cicatrized, and entirely healed.