[Noun of action f. CICATRIZE v.: perh. originally a. F. cicatrisation.] The formation of a cicatrice in the healing of a wound or sore.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., V. ii. 163. Though the seyd vlceres come to sicatrisation they sone returne agayne … by cause the cicatrisation was not made in quicke and good flesh.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 178. In the cicatrization of wounds where the skin is drawn together like a purse.
a. 1793. J. Hunter, Treat. on Blood, etc. (1794), 483. They [the granulations] soon begin to contract, which is a sign that cicatrization is to follow.
1877. Wraxall, Hugo’s Misérables, III. xv. 8. Youth is the season of prompt weldings and rapid cicatrisations.
