What's the difference between cicatrix and scarification?
Cicatrix
Definition:
(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.
Scarification
Definition:
(n.) The act of scarifying.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, in all wounds, it offers the best conditions for cutting, scarification of the wound and perifocal infiltrative treatment with anti-ophidic serum.
(2) An additional 117 patients with similar characteristics were treated with the same program with the addition of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) by scarification (FAC-BCG-LMS).
(3) These results support the view that splenosubcutaneous collaterals, stimulated by scarification, are essential for successful portal diversion.
(4) One mutant had a decreased transmission from mice infected by tail scarification to naive cage mates.
(5) Eighty mice were subjected to repeated inoculation of HSV-1 on their upper lips after scarification, and systemic administration of acyclovir (ACV).
(6) Vaccinia virus infection was performed by scarification of the shaved skin (5 times 5 cm2) on the back of Pirbright guinea pigs.
(7) Microsurgical interventions, such as scarification of epithelium, dosed local keratectomy of superficial pathologically changed portions of the cornea with subsequent epicorneal covering by keracol, allowed to arrest the pathologic process within 3-10 days in 85% of patients; in the control group--the same results were achieved in 68.4% of cases.
(8) As a result, many physicians feel pressured by their patients to replace the intradermal route of administration with scarification and to replace strong strains with weaker strains of vaccine.
(9) In all subjects scarification of forearm skin was carried out three times at intervals of 3 days.
(10) The chemoimmunotherapy consisted of a three-drug combination of Adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, and 5-fluorouracil or Ftorafur; immunotherapy consisted of either oral levamisole, BCG by scarification, or a combination of both.
(11) Scarification vaccination induced humoral and cell-mediated immune responses.
(12) The immunological status of seven patients with disseminated melanoma during BCG scarification was followed.
(13) We used the Collings knife electrode for the creation of a nephrostomy tract in 17 patients (19 renal units) with difficult percutaneous access due to scarification, or the inability to advance a guide wire sufficiently for stabilization and dilation by conventional means.
(14) This is an unusual complication of the scarification technique.
(15) Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV) infection of trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia was established in mice via corneal scarification and footpad injection, respectively.
(16) The morphological and ultrastructural findings indicated that the presence of air induced a reactive process at the visceral pleura which led to degeneration and scarification.
(17) Serological efficacy of oral smallpox vaccination was studied in comparison with the scarification and jet methods (1677 persons were vaccinated orally, 148 by scarification, and 1864 by the jet method).
(18) Scarification commenced 3 days after surgical removal of the tumor and continued once a week for 5 weeks.
(19) Six patients with recurrent bladder papillomata were treated both by abdominal scarification with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and by intravesical BCG, without resection.
(20) 4 different protocols were used: the slow drip intravenous infusion with paraformaldehyde-fixed autologous cells infected with V25; repeated scarification with V25 for the 2nd protocol; scarifications with fragments of Gp 120 env protein; and intramuscular injections of purified autologous cell membrane infected with V25.