cicatrize
verb (used with object)
to heal by inducing the formation of a cicatrix.
cicatrization
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a word derived from
cicatrize.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the same gland may sometimes be found ulcerating at one side while cicatrization is going on at the other.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The operation is repeated from time to time, and as a result the new growth undergoes retrogressive changes, and cicatrization takes place.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
As a rule, however, the ulcers are purified and heal by cicatrization.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann
A peculiar distortion of the shape of the stomach follows cicatrization of 267 ulcers of greater or lesser curvature; the gastric cavity becomes “hour-glass” in shape.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
