different between cauterise vs cicatrise

English

Alternative forms

• cauterize

Verb

cauterise (third-person singular simple present cauterises, present participle cauterising, simple past and past participle cauterised)

1. To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 198

     Just when you think you are extricating yourself, just when you think you are cauterised and ready to leave, it resurfaces. Once you've been infected, you're never again completely free.

Anagrams

• cauteries

English

Alternative forms

• cicatrize (US)

Etymology

From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cic?tr?x (“scar”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?.t?a?z/

Verb

cicatrise (third-person singular simple present cicatrises, present participle cicatrising, simple past and past participle cicatrised)

1. (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
   • 1923, The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by Powys Mathers

     But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.

2. (intransitive) To form a scar.

Related terms

• cauterise
• cicatrix

Translations

French

Verb

cicatrise

1. first-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
2. third-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
5. second-person singular imperative of cicatriser