cicatrice
noun
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Also called cicatricial alopecia, the condition causes permanent hair loss after the immune system attacks and destroys the follicles.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
Other Black women are often diagnosed with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia — a “scarring, permanent, destructive” type of alopecia that can “destroy the hair follicles,” Singh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
But some researchers have shifted focus to central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, female pattern hair loss and stress—all of which consider factors outside of styling that play a role in hair loss, such as family history.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2020
The cicatricial contraction of the integument of the neck that results from extensive burns, abscesses, or ulcers, may cause unsightly deformity and fixation of the head in an abnormal attitude, and call for surgical treatment.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The nature of the bridge of tissue is to be considered; should it be cicatricial, the result of prolonged inflammatory processes, it may be carefully excised without very great risk of serious complications.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
