(n.) The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
Example Sentences:
(1) A balloon-shaped lower segment of the uterus and its thinness (less than 3 mm), no continuity in the uterine contour, predominance of elevated echogenicity incorporations in the echostructure of the cicatrix site indicate the inadequacy of the myometrium at the site of the transverse cicatrix in the lower segment of the uterus.
(2) Implantation of saline in Gel-foam resulted in the same morphology as in hemisected animals except for increased lesion size due to mechanical factors and decreased cicatrix density during the first 30 DPO.
(3) A cicatrix formed in the process of posttraumatic skin regeneration is characterized by a higher cell adhesion power in the upper, and, especially, in the middle epidermis stratum.
(4) Possible methods of separating the dermal cicatrix from the nerves are skin flaps or muscle flaps.
(5) Inflammatory reactions in the vertebral canal tissues in response to disk fragment prolapse result in wide-spread cicatrix changes.
(6) Burn sites contaminated with FDP were evaluated by clinical observation ane to begin epithelialization, time to closure of an open wound, and the amount and type of cicatrix formation.
(7) The social status, genetic parameters, somatic and infectious diseases have been studied in BCG--vaccinated children who presented a postvaccinal cicatrix and in those in whom it did not form.
(8) The authors present a modified method for treating painful cicatrix nerve entrapments.
(9) Ten patients were operated on: 2 were subjected to anterior callosotomy, in 2 foreign bodies were removed, and in 6 patients staged plasty with removal of the meningeal cerebral cicatrix was carried out.
(10) 340 women delivered vaginally all together and the uterine cicatrix ruptured in 4 women without cases with maternal mortality, but a child died on the second day after delivery.
(11) Postoperative complications were excessive subepiglottic swelling after laser excision (n = 1 horse), which resolved completely in response to anti-inflammatory treatment, and subepiglottic cicatrix formation after snare excision (n = 1 horse), which required surgical excision of the cicatrix.
(12) The nasopharyngeal cicatrix was responsible for respiratory obstruction in only 3 horses.
(13) Using CO2 laser, cicatrix was released by making radial cuts and the oropharyngeal opening was widened.
(14) The implantation traces were recognizable as a cicatrix remaining in the parametrium, mesometrial triangle, which was formed by repair of injury caused by placental desquamation.
(15) Late failure of a filtering cicatrix occurred in a patient who had had surgery to control the glaucoma associated with the iris nevus syndrome (Cogan-Reese).
(16) A strength of the surgical cicatrix and its elongation at rupture in two weeks' injections of chondroitinsulphate increased in comparison with control.
(17) Spinal cord hemisected animals developed a dense cicatrix at the site of lesion replete with connective tissue, blood vessles, and myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibres which could be traced to peripheral sources.
(18) In 115 of 116 patients with gastric or duodenal ulcers who were treated by the authors the ulcer epithelialized and a cicatrix formed.
(19) The edematous, friable filtering cicatrix was excised entirely and a healthy fornix-based conjunctival flap was sutured over the fistula.
(20) Contrast enhancement permitted differentiation of postoperative cicatrix from other causes of lumbar spinal canal stenosis.
Cicatrize
Definition:
(v. t.) To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.
(v. i.) To heal; to have a new skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) With progressive cicatrization of the cryospots less ampicillin was found in the vitreous.
(2) This method could be used as the treatment of choice, for cicatrical stricture of upper gastrointestinal tract of various causes.
(3) A certain degree of cicatrization and renal failure are followed by progressive impairment of the remaining renal function, even if VUR is cured.
(4) The local treatment of gastroduodenal ulcers made it possible to attain positive results with a complete ulcer cicatrization and disappearance of the clinical symptom-complex in 105 (83.3%) out of the 142 patients.
(5) It makes it possible to reduce the time of therapy of patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer and to achieve healing of the defects without rough cicatrization and deformity of organs.
(6) In the analysis, the degree of complete cicatrization is considered as well as the thickness of the cicatriced tissue, and other factors such as persistence of suture material and the result of it.
(7) Treatment by curettage results in healing by secondary bone cicatrization.
(8) Surprisingly, for fibronectin and type III collagen, that terminal phenotype resembled the one normally found in the fibroblasts during the processes of tissue repair, cicatrization, and development.
(9) This case demonstrates that cicatrizing conjunctivitis with bullous mucocutaneous lesions may be a clinical sign associated with an occult neoplasm.
(10) For the non-operated patients, these are the magnitude of narrowing and the number of occluded coronary arteries, the occlusion level, involvement of great coronary arteries, the dimensions of the cicatrical zone, reduced myocardial contractility, left ventricular end diastolic pressure of more than 20 mm Hg, patient's age, and rhythm disturbances revealed on standard resting ECG.
(11) The investigations of 43 duodenal ulcer cases in the patients whose ulcers failed to cicatrize after a 8-week treatment with almagel and vicalin or cimetidine monotherapy revealed the role of the hereditary load, smoking intensity, initial ulcer dimensions, the presence of antral erosions and a pronounced periulcerous duodenitis in the phenomenon of slow healing duodenal ulcer.
(12) The surgeon is frequently confronted with an unsolvable task by relayed observation and forming cicatrization.
(13) There was no statistical difference between the values of the basal and pentagastrin-stimulated levels of hydrochloric acid secretion in the morning, partial alkaline gastric secretion, gastrinemia, the rate of evacuation of the gastric contents into the duodenum, the outcome of pancreatic bicarbonates in the sample with exogenic secretin in those whose ulcers cicatrized after a 6-week therapy and those who failed to be cured after being exposed to the same therapy during 8 weeks.
(14) In group II, there was no death and the cicatrization was quickly obtained with an average length of stay in intensive care unit of 62 days.
(15) On these patients cicatrizations in the sinus phrenicocostalis, higher position of the diaphragm, axial hernia of the hiatus, restricted flexibility of the diaphragm, flattened diaphragm and paralysis of the diaphragm were found.
(16) Special attention is given here, according to the type of varicosity to be operated, the best location for cutaneous incisions and modalities of reclosing, taking into account cicatrization problems encountered in this region.
(17) Downward traction on all layers of the lid rather than cicatrization causes lower eyelid retraction.
(18) On the other hand, the reorganization of the grafts conserved with gamma-radiation is protracted or it fails to occur, and cicatrization is observed.
(19) Although, two of them, the metal stapler and Polyglactin (Vicryl) in extramucosal surgery fulfill almost in an ideal way the goals concerning security, rare reaction to suture material, and consequently less thickness in the cicatriced tissue (2 x 2 and 1 x 1 mm respectively) as well as complete cicatrization in ninety days.
(20) Light microscopy disclosed the formation of irregularly shaped myelin sheaths and fine axons, an increase in them, which is suggestive of incomplete regeneration, cicatrization following the loss of nerve fibers, increase in Schwann's nuclei, and formation of Büngner's bands.