An agent, substance, or treatment that promotes wound healing and scar formation.
From cicatrize with the agentive suffix -er, indicating something that performs the action of cicatrizing. Common in medical texts describing therapeutic agents.
Historical cicatrizers included spider webs (which actually promote clotting), certain tree resins, and even maggots—knowledge that modern medicine is validating as larval therapy makes a comeback for resistant wounds.
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