cicatrize
/sik-uh-trahyz/US // ˈsɪk əˌtraɪz //UK // (ˈsɪkəˌtraɪz) //
瘢痕愈合
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
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cic·a·trized, cic·a·triz·ing.
- : Physiology. to heal by inducing the formation of a cicatrix.
v.无主动词 verb
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cic·a·trized, cic·a·triz·ing.
- : to become healed by the formation of a cicatrix.
Examples
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep for ever open.
There are certain pains that nothing can alleviate, nor heal, and there are wounds that nothing can cicatrize.
The wound is beginning to cicatrize, and generates laudable pus.
Sometimes the ulcers cicatrize without previous deposit of false membrane.
It is certain that Brinton under-estimates the number of recoveries when he computes that only one-half of the ulcers cicatrize.
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