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Definition of Cicatrise
1. Verb. Form a scar, after an injury. "The skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon"
Generic synonyms: Mark, Pit, Pock, Scar
Derivative terms: Cicatrix, Cicatrix
Definition of Cicatrise
1. Verb. (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form). ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To form a scar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cicatrise
Literary usage of Cicatrise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the diseases of the lungs and heart by Thomas Davies (1835)
"Third, to cicatrise Ulcerations. — General Plan of Treatment. have thus, gentlemen,
described the morbid anatomy of tubercles in the lungs : we now proceed ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1890)
"... contracts and draws the edges of the wound together, so that the sore may be
considerably diminished in size even before it has commenced to cicatrise. ..."
3. Elements of Physiology by Joh. Müller (1843)
"Solutions of continuity in glands cicatrise, it is true; but the new substance
has not the ... Wounds of the pregnant uterus cicatrise very quickly; ..."
4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1882)
"Just as the wound began to cicatrise the main fold began to ulcerate, and has
now all the appearance of a limited lupoid ulceration. ..."
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