Promoting or causing the formation of scar tissue; healing.
From Latin cicatrix with the present participle suffix -ant, indicating an agent or quality that actively performs scarring or healing.
Cicatrizant appears in older French and English medical literature as a technical descriptor for treatments—recognizing that scar formation itself was the goal, not an unfortunate side effect.
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