cicatricial
cicatricial adjective: relating to or caused by a scar.
Adjective
cicatricial (not comparable)
- 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
- This was apparently the result of the difficulty of isolating the vessels in the tangled mass of clot and cicatricial tissue surrounding them, and is a strong argument against too early interference.1901, George Henry Makins, Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900
Forms of cicatricial
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Origin of cicatricial
From cicatrix + -ial.
Words formed from cicatricial
Words that rhyme with cicatricial
- official
- superficial
- artificial
- judicial
- unofficial
- beneficial
- initial
- prejudicial
- adventitial
- comitial
- extrajudicial
- interstitial
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Questions about cicatricial
- What does cicatricial mean?
- Cicatricial means relating to or caused by a scar.
- What part of speech is cicatricial?
- Cicatricial is an adjective.
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