Cicatrix

Quick meaning: Cicatrix is a noun meaning A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).

Meaning

A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).

Example Sentences

Past the mountains, Ellay now lay looking scratchy and scarred, a hatchmarked cicatrix on the dusty earth, livid in the threatening light.

Here the boy was made to strip, and the commissioner, Mr Symonds, found a large cicatrix likely to have been occasioned by such an instrument.

He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix.

Word Forms

• cicatrixes
• cicatrices

Synonyms for cicatrix

Depending on context, synonyms include cicatrice, scar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cicatrice, scar, seam, cicatrisation, callus, scirrhus.

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