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

Etymology

Origin of cicatrize

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

Example Sentences

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cicatrize cicatrized cicatrizing

You would thus heal the wound, not cicatrize it.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

He feels very sore at the rumored intentions to relieve him, and the major-generalcy does not cicatrize the wound.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

The wound is beginning to cicatrize, and generates laudable pus.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

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

Time alone does a little cicatrize such wounds; and, let us add, work.

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard

In a year from the time of the accident, the wound, with the exception of a fistulous aperture of the stomach and side, had completely cicatrized.

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

On the brown flesh of his forearm I saw a queer, ragged white cross—the scar a snake bite leaves when it is cicatrized.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

I cannot say whether nature or the remedy healed my wound, but in a short time the flesh cicatrized, and all symptoms of inflammation disappeared entirely.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz

Then permit me to assure you, that you are needlessly expending your sympathy, for I bear witness to the fact that his wounds have cicatrized.

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

As he spoke, he laid his finger upon a cicatrized wound upon his cheek, a frightful scar several inches in length, and evidently made by a tomahawk.

From In the Pecos Country / Lieutenant R. H. Jayne by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

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

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

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

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 Kock, Charles Paul de

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 Anshutz, Edward Pollock