cicatrice
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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
What a delectable conspirator!' laughed my lord, cooling his aching head against the wall, while the cicatrice on his forehead grew red, and an evil glitter shone in his eyes.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
The sword of overwhelming tragedy had stripped off the protecting cicatrice of pride and arrogant resentment and bared the lonely soul beneath, that in this shuddering instant groped wildly for human comfort.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie
Since 1880, since the administration of President Hayes, the wound has been steadily healing, until it has come to seem no longer a burning sore, but an honourable cicatrice.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William
The cicatrice began to make itself very visible in his face, and the debonair manner was fast vanishing.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
In the softer skin if pigmented the cicatrices are white and frequently remain so for about a year, when the pigment returns.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
This last is, in the milder varieties at least, perhaps the best method, as it is less likely to be followed by disfiguring cicatrices.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
However, the number of cicatrices does not always correspond with the number of conceptions.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Knowlton, Charles
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
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