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cicatrical

cicatrical is the alternative form of cicatricial.

Meaning of cicatricial

Adjective

cicatricial (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or caused by a scar.
    • 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.1891, Peter Charles Remondino, History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present

Questions about cicatrical

What is cicatrical the alternative form of?
Cicatrical is the alternative form of cicatricial.

Words near cicatrical in the dictionary

  1. cicalas
  2. cicale
  3. cicales
  4. Cicalese
  5. Cicaleses
  6. cicatrical
  7. cicatrice
  8. cicatrices
  9. cicatricial
  10. cicatricle
  11. cicatricles

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