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What does epithelialize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word epithelialize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To cover a wound (or become covered) with epithelial tissue.
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Thus, applying topical antibiotics and eliminating the friction of a wet diaper may allow the granulation tissue to epithelialize.
Like hydrogels, hydrocolloids can help a clean wound to granulate or epithelialize and encourage autolytic debridement in wounds with necrotic tissue.
Scx has an established role in later stages of epiblast maturation: from around E6.5 the epiblast of Scx mutants fails to develop further and does not properly epithelialize.

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