When the edges of the wound are brought together the overgrown edge is pulled away from the nail and the further cicatrization of the wound contracting the soft tissues, assures an excellent result.
They are also of value in producing cicatrization and in promoting the covering of new epithelium over the ulcer or wound.
If the grafts be close enough together and the conditions be favorable to healing, these islands soon coalesce and thus rapid cicatrization is obtained.
The reference to cicatrization brings to mind another distinctive Central African observance.
Cicatrization bears the same relation to the African native that tattooing does to the whites of some sections.
The Bangalas practice cicatrization to an elaborate extent.
Cicatrization is popular in various parts of Central Africa but nowhere to the degree that it prevails on the Congo River and among the Bangalas, where it is a tribal mark.
In a majority of cases the process of cicatrization will take place, and the cavity fill up by granulation, the discharge, at first abundant, gradually diminishing and the wound closing, usually without leaving any mark.
The prognosis is variable, for there may be slow and extensive cicatrization and impairment of function, etc.
If the edges are swollen or large, or if granulation or cicatrization have commenced, it is evident that the person must have lived some hours or some days after their reception.
Of course, if cicatrization has commenced, some days must have elapsed before death after the wound was received.
These operations were bloodless, and cicatrization was as rapid as when the knife was used.
Like to the Arabs, the Turks celebrated the occasion by feasts, plays, and a general good time; the child was kept in bed for fifteen days to allow complete cicatrization to take place.
Now and then the process of cicatrization is retarded by the development of fungous granulations.
The object of this operation is to produce a diminution of the orifice of the anus, which it does by the cicatrizationand contraction of the little wounds made in the operation.
After cicatrization of the margins, and contraction of the opening, a metallic plate may be fitted in.
He extracted this, and, until cicatrizationwas complete, he dressed the stump with saturnine cerate.
From this time the man speedily failed, and after his death there were cicatricial signs found, particularly on the wall of the left ventricle, together with patency of the interventricular septum, with signs of cicatrization about this rent.
Sponge-grafts are often used to hasten cicatrizationof integumental wounds.
Cicatrization was somewhat delayed; immediately on leaving the hospital she returned to her old habits, but the pain and hemorrhage attending copulation was so great that she had finally to desist.
Beneath the crusts cicatrization advances till the former are lessened, and finally, becoming detached, fall in quantity from the surfaces subjected to friction.
It occasionally happens that while cicatrization is taking place at one end of the ulcer the process of necrosis and ulceration is still going on at the other, so that two or more ulcers may occasionally run together.
The time occupied in the cicatrization of each ulcer is said to be about two weeks.
Indeed, the same gland may sometimes be found ulcerating at one side while cicatrization is going on at the other.
The cicatrization which results puckers the edges of the ulcers, and may in cases of extensive or circular ulceration lead to more or less stenosis of the intestinal tube.
This peculiarity was probably referable to the cicatrizationof the ulcer.
Cicatrization of the ulcers takes place by the formation of cicatricial tissue at their base; the excavation is filled up partially, by contraction the edges are brought together, and the tissue solidifies.
The most common cause of stricture is contraction following cicatrization of ulcers of the mucous and submucous coats of the intestine.
It is most likely to develop in large and deep ulcers with thickened edges, where complete closure by cicatrization is very difficult or impossible.
These ulcers often exist without distinctive symptoms, and may go on to cicatrization without announcing themselves.
Various gastric disturbances may, however, follow the cicatrization of gastric ulcer, especially if the ulcer was large and of long duration.
The same effect may follow the cicatrization of an ulcer of the duodenum in the immediate vicinity of the orifice of the common duct.
Complete cicatrization of the cavity should take place within two or three months, depending on the size of the cavity.
The tissues will be found extremely hard and resistant, especially if there be muchcicatrization about the angle of the laceration.
A similar union is also useful in keeping the lower lid in position during the process of cicatrization in many of the operations for ectropion described below.
The operation had succeeded, and the cicatrization of the bones, both about the wound and in the parts originally affected, shows that recovery was complete.
There could be no doubt on that point; cicatrization had been complete, the bony tissue having returned to its original condition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cicatrization" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
