| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| cicatrize |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cic·a·trize |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s k  -tr z |
| TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: cic·a·trized, cic·a·triz·ing, cic·a·triz·es
To heal or become healed by the formation of scar tissue. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English cicatrizen, from Old French cicatriser, from Medieval Latin cic trizre, alteration of Late Latin cictrcr, to scar over, from Latin cictrx, cictrc-, cicatrix. | | OTHER FORMS: | cica·tri·zation (-tr-zshn) —NOUN
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