cicatrize
/ˈsɪkətrʌɪz
/(also cicatrise)
verb
(With reference to a wound) heal by scar formation: [no object]: his wound had cicatrized...
- This oil appears to be one of the most effective, naturally occurring, cicatrizing agents.
- Oil of Tamanu appears to be one of the most effective known cicatrizing agents in nature.
- In the middle ages, pastel leaves were applied in poultice for their cicatrising virtues.
Derivatives
cicatrization
/ nounOrigin
Late Middle English: from Old French cicatriser, from cicatrice 'scar' (see cicatrix).
- aphthous fever
- API
- Apia
- apian
- apiarian
- apiarist
- apiary
- apical
- apices
- Apicomplexa
- apicomplexan
- apicultural
- apiculture
- apiculturist
- apiece
- a piece of ass (or tail)
- a piece of cake
- a piece of old tackie
- a piece of piss
- a piece (or slice) of the action
- a piece (or slice) of the pie
- a pig in a poke
- a pig of a ——
- Apis
- apish