Monday, January 4, 2010

word of the day :: cicatrised

cicatrize:
[sik-uh-trahyz]


–verb (used with object)
1. Physiology. to heal by inducing the formation of a cicatrix.
–verb (used without object)
1. to become healed by the formation of a cicatrix.
Also, especially in British, cicatrise.

Origin:
1350-1400; ME < ML cicātrizāre.


FROM THE MEDICAL DICTIONARY
cicatrize cic·a·trize (sĭk'ə-trīz')
v. cic·a·trizedcic·a·triz·ingcic·a·triz·es 
To heal by forming scar tissue.


"'As for myself, I was settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy had left on me was becoming cicatrised.'" (Dr. John Seward in Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



* Definition from www.dictionary.com

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