- a variation of cicatrix.
cicatrice
Americannoun
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cicatrices
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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
The handsome stalwart fellow, bronzed and weather-worn, his brow crossed by a deep and honourable cicatrice!
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
The cicatrice began to make itself very visible in his face, and the debonair manner was fast vanishing.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
His features were hard, and on one cheek he had a cicatrice, the remains of some misfortune that had happened to him in his boyhood.
From An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope
The cicatrice served also as a mark of mutual recognition, so that the object and plans of the leaguers should never be discussed with others.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
The nasal mucosa, and especially over the septum, is the seat of the peculiar elevations, ulcers, and firm white, condensed deposits resembling cicatrices, usually low enough down to be seen or felt.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Another manner of adornment is by raised cicatrices made on the chest and back and arms, by cutting the skin with a piece of sharp flint and putting in gum or clay.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer
Extensive and deep cicatrices are not infrequently found in the site of the ulcerating local manifestations.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Besides this, the whole shoulder seemed a mass of cicatrices.
From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Elliott Whitney
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