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

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

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 William Carleton

A wound that, I fear, will never cicatrize.

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

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 L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

Fungating ulcerations may in some cases be made to cicatrize by superficial cauterization.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

One of the beggars, with a red, cicatrized slough instead of a nose, approached Katiousha.

From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count

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

From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

The marks left by this malady when cicatrized might easily be mistaken for those of inoculation.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Near me sat a young officer in undress uniform, with a cicatrized bullet wound in his cheek.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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 Brantz Mayer

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

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

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

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