Cicatricial

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to, marked by, or forming a cicatrice or scar: as, a cicatricial process.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.
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  • adjective. caused by a scar
  • Word Usage
    "When considerable cicatricial tissue is present, due to the action of depilating vesicants or other chemicals, sloughing of tissue is very apt to follow deep cauterization, if one is not careful to keep the punctures at least one-half inch apart when three are made."
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