Did you mayhaps mean cicatrice?
Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cicātrīx ("scar"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A dire vrai on la voit que quand il fait froid parce que je cicatrise tres bien ...”
“Aseptic wounds could probably be made to cicatrise more rapidly.”
“It used to be advised that an elliptical portion of the wall of the trachea be removed; this, though succeeding well enough for a time, was unscientific, as the wound always tended to cicatrise, and ended of course in permanent narrowing of the canal of the trachea.”
“A custom among the natives here is to cicatrise in parallel horizontal lines the abdomens of the female portion of the community.”
“It will cause ordinary wounds to cicatrise in a few hours, and even "ugly gashes" will yield to it in time.”
“Basil had given her shanks a fresh touch of the bear's grease; and the scars which the cougar had made were likely to cicatrise speedily.”
“Caliph, who was eager to cicatrise himself and attend the ceremonial; nor could he have been dissuaded, had not his excessive weakness disabled him from walking; at the few first steps he fell on the ground, and his people were obliged to lay him on a bed, where he remained many days in such a state of insensibility, as excited compassion in the Emir himself.”
“Whoever should once make my soul lose her footing, would never set her upright again: she retastes and researches herself too profoundly, and too much to the quick, and therefore would never let the wound she had received heal and cicatrise.”
“Allah!” reached to the Caliph, who was eager to cicatrise himself and attend the ceremonial; nor could he have been dissuaded, had not his excessive weakness disabled him from walking; at the few first steps he fell on the ground, and his people were obliged to lay him on a bed, where he remained many days in such a state of insensibility, as excited compassion in the”
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