To form or cause to form scar tissue; an alternate form of cicatrize.
From Latin cicatrix with the Latin verb-forming suffix -ate, creating a learned medical term with dual Germanic and Romance roots.
This Latinate form with -ate is less common than cicatrize but appears in older medical literature and still shows up in formal anatomical descriptions, preserving the classical medical language tradition.
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