(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.
Scar
Definition:
(n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
(n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.
(v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.
(v. i.) To form a scar.
(n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
(n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(2) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(3) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
(4) Following a dosage of 300,000 IU streptokinase the lysis was stopped because of severe bleeding from the urethrotomy scar.
(5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(6) These findings support the hypothesis that the presence of FSC tissue will have an effect on the persistence of glial scar tissue in a chronic lesion site as well as limit the extent to which a new scar is formed in response to a second injury to the spinal cord.
(7) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.
(8) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(9) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
(10) The patient suffers little inconvenience, has a very small scar and is in hospital only a short time.
(11) Skin affected by a burn cancer is scarred, ulcerated, and often appears as erythema ab igne clinically in adjacent skin.
(12) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(13) The ensuing scars were similar with respect to scar width and the amount of collagen in the scar.
(14) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(15) This method keeps the fracture closed and leaves no scar.
(16) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(17) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
(18) After the completion of rejection reaction, inflammation finally induced scarring or necrosis of the tracheal allograft, resulting in asphyxia or perforation.
(19) Autopsy findings showed no scar formation of his testes, and the primary lesion was finally diagnosed to be in the anterior mediastinum.
(20) Following this combination procedure the patients were relieved completely of obstructive jaundice and right upper quadrant pain, leaving only small trocar insertion scars made during the short course of hospitalization.