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CICATRIX

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cicatrices   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

Synonyms:

cicatrice; cicatrix; scar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cicatrix" 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 "cicatrix"):

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)

Derivation:

cicatrise; cicatrize (form a scar, after an injury)

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