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)

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

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard

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 Sanday, William

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

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

From Lectures on Art by Allston, Washington

Oncle Jazon chuckled reminiscently and scratched the skinless, cicatrized spot where his scalp had once flourished.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

A wound in an osmotic production may also become cicatrized and covered with a membrane, when the growth will recommence exactly as in a living being.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

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 Bache, Franklin

I observed women whose entire bodies from the ankles up to the head were one mass of cicatrized designs.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

If neither of the rectus muscles have been cut and cicatrized, and if the deformity be not congenital, it may ordinarily be cured.

From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Clark, Daniel

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

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)

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

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