cicatrize

IPA: sʌkˈeɪtɝaɪz

Examples of "cicatrize" in Sentences

It has also been applied to ulcers when the indication is to cicatrize them.
This perforation had been made during life, for the edges had commenced to cicatrize.
Fungating ulcerations may in some cases be made to cicatrize by superficial cauterization.
There are certain pains that nothing can alleviate, nor heal, and there are wounds that nothing can cicatrize.
He incorrectly spelled "cicatrize" (to heal with the formation of a scar), ending his National Spelling Bee experience.
And if any part that is to come away shall fall off, the part will incarnate sooner when thus treated than otherwise, and will more speedily cicatrize.
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.
The decoction of the root is alterative and purgative; and is also said to be valuable in washing sores and ulcers, in order to change the mode of their vitality, and to make them cicatrize.
Thomas Henderson maintains that the results of iridectomy are beneficial because the raw edges of the coloboma, which do not cicatrize, permit access of the aqueous to the iris veins, and that myotics, inasmuch as they contract the pupil, open the iris crypts and therefore act, less efficiently, perhaps, but act none the less like an iridectomy.