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cicatrisive

cicatrisive adjective: tending to promote scarring; good for healing a wound.

Adjective

cicatrisive (comparative more cicatrisive, superlative most cicatrisive)

  1. (archaic, rare) Tending to promote scarring; good for healing a wound.

Forms of cicatrisive

comparativemore cicatrisive
superlativemost cicatrisive

Origin of cicatrisive

See cicatrix.

Questions about cicatrisive

What does cicatrisive mean?
Cicatrisive means tending to promote scarring; good for healing a wound.
What part of speech is cicatrisive?
Cicatrisive is an adjective.

Words near cicatrisive in the dictionary

  1. cicatrisations
  2. cicatrise
  3. cicatrised
  4. cicatrises
  5. cicatrising
  6. cicatrisive
  7. cicatrix
  8. cicatrixes
  9. cicatrizant
  10. cicatrizants
  11. cicatrizate

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