cicatrize

American  

[sik-uh-trahyz] / ˈsɪk əˌtraɪz /

especially British, cicatrise

verb (used with object)

cicatrized, cicatrizing

1. Physiology. to heal by inducing the formation of a cicatrix.

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verb (used without object)

cicatrized, cicatrizing

1. to become healed by the formation of a cicatrix.

cicatrize British  

/ ˈsɪkəˌtraɪz /

verb

1. (of a wound or defect in tissue) to close or be closed by scar formation; heal

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Other Word Forms

• cicatrization
  noun
• cicatrizer
  noun
• cicatrizant
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of cicatrize

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word cicātrizāre. See cicatrix, -ize

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Example Sentences

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cicatrize cicatrized cicatrizing

A wound that, I fear, will never cicatrize.

From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep for ever open.

From Lectures on Art by Washington Allston

As fast as one is cut down another arises in its place; and there is no searing- iron to scorch and cicatrize the wound.

From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday

But the Patient must be oblig'd to lie on his Belly for some Days successively, to cicatrize the Wound thereof, or that of the Entrails.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

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.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

I know it will be long before the wounds of our faithful hearts are cicatrized.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

By the 9th day, the wound had cicatrized, excepting near the symphisis; symptoms all favourable.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

Part of these wounds were cicatrized and part still granulating, which shows that the process of reparation is as active in utero as elsewhere.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

The lips of the incision were drawn together over a sound, passed into the bladder; and by the 5th day, the wound was completely cicatrized.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

The wound which years had scarcely cicatrized bled afresh, and oh, how bitterly!

From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In some cases extensive wounds of the scalp heal without artificial aid by simply cicatrizing over.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

We make a tincture out of it which has marvelous healing and cicatrizing properties.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

He was worried and alarmed by his helpless plight, and the wound on his head, instead of cicatrizing, became more serious, because it was complicated by a sharp attack of fever.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock

The springs of Weissenburg in the Bernese Oberland yield a water which is popularly supposed to have the power of cicatrizing cavities in the lungs, but its analysis shows no reason for such a power.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

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