Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To heal or become healed by the formation of scar tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To induce the formation of a cicatrice on; heal up (a wound).
- To form a cicatrice in healing; skin over: as, the wound cicatrized.
- Also spelled
cicatrise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Med.) To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.
- intransitive verb (Med.) To heal; to have a new skin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To form a
scar . - verb transitive To treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or
cicatrix to form.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form a scar, after an injury
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He incorrectly spelled "cicatrize" (to heal with the formation of a scar), ending his National Spelling Bee experience.
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And if any part that is to come away shall fall off, the part will incarnate sooner when thus treated than otherwise, and will more speedily cicatrize.
On Fractures 2007
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There are certain pains that nothing can alleviate, nor heal, and there are wounds that nothing can cicatrize.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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It was more agreeable, in an hour of self-collectedness, to devise a remedy, which, if it did not cure the disease, helped at least to cicatrize the immediate wounds.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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Thomas Henderson maintains that the results of iridectomy are beneficial because the raw edges of the coloboma, which do not cicatrize, permit access of the aqueous to the iris veins, and that myotics, inasmuch as they contract the pupil, open the iris crypts and therefore act, less efficiently, perhaps, but act none the less like an iridectomy.
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Fungating ulcerations may in some cases be made to cicatrize by superficial cauterization.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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This perforation had been made during life, for the edges had commenced to cicatrize.
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884
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This perforation had been made during life, for the edges had commenced to cicatrize.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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The decoction of the root is alterative and purgative; and is also said to be valuable in washing sores and ulcers, in order to change the mode of their vitality, and to make them cicatrize.
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It has also been applied to ulcers when the indication is to cicatrize them.
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