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Cicatrization

Cicatrization \Cic`a*tri*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. cicatrisation.] (Med.) The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.

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cicatrization

n. (context medicine English) The process of forming a cicatrix; the state of being cicatrized.

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Cicatrization

Cicatrization can mean:

  • the process of a wound healing to produce scar tissue
  • scarification, a form of body modification that uses cicatrization to create patterns on the skin.

Usage examples of "cicatrization".

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.

Three months were necessary for cicatrization, but it was not until the capitulation of Marabou, at which place he was wounded, that the patient was returned to France.

He extracted this, and, until cicatrization was complete, he dressed the stump with saturnine cerate.

Sponge-grafts are often used to hasten cicatrization of integumental wounds.

Cyrus Harding that he thought he ought first of all to stop the hemorrhage, but not close the two wounds, or cause their immediate cicatrization, for there had been internal perforation, and the suppuration must not be allowed to accumulate in the chest.

Spilett then explained to Cyrus Harding that he thought he ought first of all to stop the hemorrhage, but not close the two wounds, or cause their immediate cicatrization, for there had been internal perforation, and the suppuration must not be allowed to accumulate in the chest.

Cyrus Harding that he thought he ought first of all to stop the hemorrhage, but not close the two wounds, or cause their immediate cicatrization, for there had been internal perforation, and the suppuration must not be allowed to accumulate in the chest.

Herbert's wounds, covered with compresses and lint, were pressed neither too much nor too little, so as to cause their cicatrization without effecting any inflammatory reaction.