- a variation of cicatrix.
cicatrice
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Explanation
A cicatrice is a scar, the mark left on your skin when a cut, scrape, or burn has started to heal. If you wipe out on your bike you might end up, weeks later, with a cicatrice on your knee. It's much more common to use the word scar, but you can also use cicatrice, or cicatrix, as it's also spelled. Often a cicatrice will fade over time, as the initial wound completes the healing process, but sometimes a cicatrice can stick around for the rest of your life as a reminder of your youthful skateboard adventures. Cicatrice comes from the Latin cicatrix, "scar."
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For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chest and back were covered with skin decoration of the cicatrice type, which, healing without any tendency to keloid, left a smooth mark, distinguished by its lustre only from the normal surface.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden
The fellow carried a long cicatrice on his left cheek.
From Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
Nigel turned pale as his eyes rested upon the cicatrice, showing like a whitish seam through the slight coating of blood.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne
There was a curious curve upward at the end, and a thickened cicatrice, as if it had been carelessly gathered up by the surgeon's needle.
From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
Still scars remained, and there were times when the blood flowed into these cicatrices so feverishly as to cause pain.
From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Anaplerosis, an′a-plē-rō′sis, n. the filling up of a deficiency, esp. in medicine: the filling up of parts that have been destroyed, as in wounds, cicatrices, &c.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The walls are often pasty, and may be eroded, or ulcerated, and they may show vessels or cicatrices.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
Besides this, the whole shoulder seemed a mass of cicatrices.
From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Whitney, Elliott
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