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cicatrices

  • plural
    of cicatrice.
    cicatrice
    noun
  • plural
    of cicatrix.
    cicatrix
    noun
    new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.

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But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.

From Newsweek Oct. 22, 2012

Besides this, the whole shoulder seemed a mass of cicatrices.

From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Elliott Whitney

Posterior half of nasal septum, right side, showing cicatrices.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

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