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CICATRICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cicatrice" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cicatrice"):
callus (bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone)
cheloid; keloid (raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair)
pockmark (a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease)
sword-cut (a scar from a cut made by a sword)
vaccination (the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine)
