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Webster 1913 Edition
Cicatricial
Cicˊa-tri′cial
,Adj.
(Med.)
Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.
Dunglison.
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cicatricial
cicatricial
English
Adjective
cicatricial (not comparable)
- (archaic) caused by a scar
- 1916, United States Department of Agriculture, Special Report on Diseases of the Horse:
- Under the most favorable circumstances a period of from six weeks to two months will be necessary for the treatment, before the formation of the cicatricial callus and the establishment of a firm union between the tendinous stumps.
- 1891, Peter Charles Remondino, History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present:
- It required a secondary operation to overcome some cicatricial contraction, and, on the whole, he had a very serviceable prepuce; but, what was more to the point, it prevented his ever being mistaken for a Turk.
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