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
Repair.—As the disintegrated brain matter is replaced by cicatricial tissue, neither the nerve cells nor the fibres being regenerated, the loss of function of the parts destroyed is usually permanent.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Later, cicatricial contraction takes place at the injured portions, producing the most intractable form of fibrous stricture.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
