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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·trized, cic·a·triz·ing, cic·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)

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