Medical Definition of Cicatrisation
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Contraction of fibrous tissue, formed at a wound site by fibroblasts, reducing the size of the wound but causing tissue distortion and disfigurement. Once thought to be due to contraction of collagen but now known to be due to cellular activity.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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