The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cicatricial \Cic`a*tri"cial\, a. (Med.)
Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.
--Dunglison.
Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) caused by a scar
Usage examples of "cicatricial".
Skin grafting has great value after extensive burns, not because it hastens healing, which it probably does not do, but because it has a marked influence in lessening cicatricial contraction.
Union of the denuded surfaces is the rule, and the cicatricial tissue, formed during the earlier months of pregnancy, is strong enough to resist the shock of labor at term.
From this time the man speedily failed, and after his death there were cicatricial signs found, particularly on the wall of the left ventricle, together with patency of the interventricular septum, with signs of cicatrization about this rent.
Zesas was for cicatricial stenoses 60 per cent, and for malignant cases 84 per cent.
Heineke and Mikulicz, and is designed to remove the mechanic obstruction in cicatricial stenoses of the pylorus, at the same time creating a new pylorus.
Wolfer has been successful in transplanting the mucous membranes of frogs, rabbits, and pigeons to a portion of mucous membrane previously occupied by cicatricial tissue, and was the first to show that on mucous surfaces, mucous membrane remains mucous membrane, but when transplanted to skin, it becomes skin.
Thiersch therefore recommends that for the prevention of cicatricial contraction, the grafting be performed with large strips of skin.
When a young girl a tumor was removed from the front of her neck by operation, and cicatricial tumors then spread like a band encircling one-half her neck.
Zesas was for cicatricial stenoses 60 per cent, and for malignant cases 84 per cent.
Heineke and Mikulicz, and is designed to remove the mechanic obstruction in cicatricial stenoses of the pylorus, at the same time creating a new pylorus.