This operation provides a skin covering, without any danger of the cicatrix being pressed on or becoming adherent.
The cicatrix was situated upon the upper part of the foot, and had very little breadth, as the divided parts had been kept united after being brought into close contact.
Contraction of the cicatrix will thus tend to open rather than close the urethral orifice.
This last is not so much required in these days of anæsthetics, and the cicatrix in the sole is a very formidable objection to it.
A little more care may thus be required in dissecting out the head of the first phalanx, but this is quite repaid by the cicatrix in the sole being avoided.
The reason of this may be found in the nature of the flap itself, originally intended to bear the weight of the body, there being no cicatrix at the part on which pressure is borne.
The skin becomes attached to the bones, the cicatrix never properly firms at all, the patient can hardly bear the pressure of a stocking, far less can he make use of the limb.
The small granulating surface soon healed, and at present a linear cicatrix alone tells of the injury he has sustained, while his thumb has all its movements and his hand a fine grasp.
And he bared his breast as he spoke, to show the cicatrix of an old flesh-wound from a Highlander's bayonet.
This is especially the case if the wound has healed by primary union and the cicatrix is linear.
In these cases a shining cicatrix remains after the healing, without contraction of surrounding parts.
A cicatrix being the result of a solution of continuity in the derma, the question arises whether a wound that has divided the derma without loss of substance and healed by first intention leaves any perceptible scar.
A red cicatrix follows, and when the epidermis separates the tattoo disappears.
The formation of a cicatrixis evidently due to the intensity of the process in certain exceptional lesions, as a result of which the papillæ of the corium are superficially destroyed.
As has already been said, the cicatrix is to a certain extent peculiar in that it is usually depressed and foveolated.
Hemorrhage has also been observed from the uterus, from the kidneys, from the ears, and from the old cicatrix of a syphilitic chancre.
I observed a cicatrix on the right side of his nose, and above this a sinus, still unhealed, the orifice of which involved the inner canthus of the right eye, and extended downward and inward for about a centimeter.
A slight fleshy protuberance depended from thecicatrix of the humerus and shoulder-joint of the left side, and until the age of ten there was one on the right side.
The vessel had been completely penetrated, as, by laying it open, an internal cicatrix was found corresponding to the other.
At the postmortem the cicatrix in the chest was plainly visible, and in the ascending aorta there was seen a wound, directly in the track of the knife, which was of irregular border and was occupied by a firm coagulum of blood.
A cicatrixwas completed at the end of six weeks, and the patient, a woman of fifty-three, made an excellent recovery.
He was submitted to an examination, and a cicatrix of this region was noticed, and an extraneous body about 1/2 inch under the integument was felt.
There was a slight enlargement of the abdomen and a cicatrix of the wound in the right groin.
The postmortem showed a cicatrix of the bladder which had given way and caused the patient's death.
The form of injury causing the cicatrix is no factor in the production of keloid, the sting of an insect, the prick of a needle, and even the wearing of ear-rings having been frequent causes of keloid-formations among the negro race.
Barlow also recites a case of hiccough which was caused by pressure on the cicatrix of a wound in the left hand.
Recovery ensued, with a cicatrix on the forehead, through which the pulsations of the brain could be distinctly seen.
La Peyroma describes a case of impotence due to ejaculation of the spermatic ducts into the bladder instead of into the urethra, but remarks that there was a cicatrix of a wound of the neighboring parts.
Both sides showed evidences of amputation, the cicatrix on the right side being 1 inch long and on the left 1/4 inch long.
The operation of castration among these people was performed at one stroke or at two different times, in the former case one cicatrix being left, and in the latter two.
The skin begins to grow from the edges to the center, covering the new tissue and leaving a cicatrix or scar with which every one is familiar.
A round cicatrix or scar in the median line of the abdomen.
In the stomach were found a cicatrix and two open ulcers, one of which had perforated.
The mucous membrane which has been drawn over the cicatrix is intimately blended with the fibrous substratum, and is usually itself invaded by fibrous tissue which compresses and distorts the gastric tubules.
In the neck, and immediately behind an old cicatrix in the skin, there were two glands containing, in several points of their substance, small masses of hard cretaceous matter.
In one case (Donne) a cicatrix was found in the stomach of a child three years old.
When the pus escapes the walls of the abscess approximate, and union takes place by connective tissue, leaving a radiated or a merely linear cicatrix to mark the site of the purulent collection.
The formation and contraction of the cicatrix may cause various deformities of the stomach.
It is doubtless true that many of the so-called cures from the latter process subsequently die from contraction of the cicatrix at the site of the separation of the slough.
The size, shape, and level of the cicatrixdepend upon the conditions which preceded healing.
As soon as the ulcer assumes the characters of a healing sore, it should be covered with skin-grafts, which furnish a much better cicatrix than that which forms when the ulcer is allowed to heal without such aid.
In course of time this tissue becomes consolidated, and the cicatrix undergoes a certain amount of contraction--cicatricial contraction.
This may replace the tuberculous tissue and bring about repair--a fibrous cicatrix remaining to mark the scene of the previous contest.
Less frequently a traumatic aneurysm forms some considerable time after the injury, from gradual stretching of the fibrous cicatrixby which the wound in the wall of the artery has been closed.
The gradual stretching of this cicatrix results in condensation of the surrounding structures which form the sac, on the inner aspect of which laminated clot is deposited.
The resulting cicatrix may be slightly depressed, but otherwise exhibits little tendency to contract and cause deformity.
The attacks recurred for more than a month, long after the original wound had healed soundly; and, for a long time after this, pressure on the cicatrix would reproduce the attacks.
A new arm is formed at the cicatrix before the next breeding season.
Initial chamber not inflated, with dorso-ventral cicatrix at extremity.
Gradually the cavity fills up, and a depressed, firm, and permanent cicatrix is obtained.
This method I have practised repeatedly; the cicatrix is then completely out of sight, and in the male is entirely covered and concealed.
The dressings thus arranged do not adhere, and the tender cicatrix is not ruffled and disturbed; or a piece of pierced linen spread thinly with unirritating ointment may be placed over the sore, and above that dry lint.
In conclusion, it may be remarked that the temporary cicatrix of a sore leading to a diseased bone has a very different appearance from the sound scar which is formed after its removal.
The disease may return in the skin; the cicatrix hardens, ulceration occurs, and makes progress.
Where deformity has occurred, the hardened cicatrix which is in fault may be either divided or excised, and by paying attention to position in the after-treatment, the evil may be greatly lessened.
In order fully to obviate the evil of this contraction of the cicatrix in inveterate cases of ectropion, a form of plastic operation may be successfully resorted to.
If the ulcer is large, the granulations close to the cicatrix should only be destroyed, leaving the centre to be dealt with as the cure advances.
The wound gradually contracts; and though an opaque cicatrix must form on the corneal surface, the speck is of much less dimensions than the space formerly occupied by the pterygium.
On examining the removed stump, all the nerves, particularly the musculo-spiral, were found greatly enlarged in their extremities, and intimately adherent to the cicatrix and the ligamentous covering of the rounded extremity of the humerus.
In the old and debilitated, however, in whom the indolent sore most frequently occurs, the integuments remain purple and shining, and from very slight causes the cicatrix is absorbed, and breach of surface is reproduced.
When eversion arises from a cicatrix of the integuments, the part in fault may be divided; but a temporary benefit only can be procured.
The cicatrix being dissected out, and the tarsal cartilage brought neatly into position, a piece of integument from the temple or cheek may be adapted, and a portion of a new eyelid formed.
Of incised wounds an elliptical cicatrix is typical, linear being chiefly found between the fingers and toes.
Finally the cicatrix of a preexisting crack, weak, rigid, and unyielding, is liable to reopen under any severe exertion; hence rapid paces and heavy draft are active causes.
If from a wound which has healed, an excision of the cicatrix may be beneficial.
The cicatrix has a slaty porcellanous-looking colour.
The swelling caused by the infiltration gradually subsides, leaving a cicatrix to which the overlying conjunctiva becomes adherent.
The uterus became adherent to the anterior wall of the abdomen, so that in the fourth operation the abdominal cavity was not even opened, the incision being made through the common cicatrix into the uterus.
And, in either condition, the navel cord or its cicatrix remains, to testify to something anterior to both.
When he let go, the latter had already sunk into the skin, and nothing was to be seen but a cicatrix well healed over.
He then bit Feng's arm, and the latter waked up with the pain to find that the cicatrix on his arm was no longer there.
This was a common sequence of contusion of the nerve itself, or of its subsequent inclusion in a cicatrix or callus.
Taken as a whole, the operations on the head were extremely satisfactory from a technical point of view; the large depressed pulsating cicatrix so often left was the chief defect observed.
The signs of this most commonly commenced with neuralgia, or painful sensations when such movements were made as to put thecicatrix on the stretch.
On December 15 an incision was made through the old cicatrix directly over the defect in the skull.
When admitted into the hospital, the cicatrix of the wound was considerably depressed, and the central part was evidently continuously attached to the surface of the brain.
This depends upon the induration of the line of cicatrix corresponding to the course of the original track which is adherent to the two points.
In operations upon the nose through the face the cicatrix becomes more marked with each intervention.
In some instances the cicatrixis very thin, and the surgeon cutting through it is liable to cut the intestine before being aware that the knife has entered the abdomen.
In the latter instance it is very liable to carry iris into the wound, and a cystoid cicatrix results.
The lid is first freed by dividing all the cicatricial bands, or, if only a small cicatrix be present, by excising that.
But increased tension is not the whole story of glaucoma, and a filtering cicatrix is not the last word in surgical therapeutics, and there is much to learn.
Reasons for believing that of the better known procedures simple iridectomy is the least effective, while those interventions producing a large, thin, scleral filtration-cicatrix are the most valuable.
In those in whom conception has ever taken place, some of these vesicles are removed, and in their place a cicatrix or scar is formed which continues through life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cicatrix" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
