cicatrix
Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
Botany. a scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.
Origin of cicatrix
1- Also cic·a·trice [sik-uh-tris]. /ˈsɪk ə trɪs/.
Other words from cicatrix
- cic·a·tri·cial [sik-uh-trish-uhl], /ˌsɪk əˈtrɪʃ əl/, adjective
- ci·cat·ri·cose [si-ka-tri-kohs, sik-uh-], /sɪˈkæ trɪˌkoʊs, ˈsɪk ə-/, adjective
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How to use cicatrix in a sentence
She lived to be eighty-five, and to the day of her death caressed the scar—the cicatrice of a love-wound.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 | Elbert HubbardAnd he laid bare a fearful cicatrice that almost surrounded his right arm above the wrist.
A Rent In A Cloud | Charles James LeverThe fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.
Love's Usuries | Louis CreswickeThere was the cicatrice of an old wound on a lower limb, but otherwise there was no spot or blemish upon the body.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life | James D. McCabeEach of these matrixes contains a small drop of this prolific liquor of the female, in the part that is called the cicatrice.
Buffon's Natural History, Volume III (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
British Dictionary definitions for cicatrix
/ (ˈsɪkətrɪks) /
the tissue that forms in a wound during healing; scar
a scar on a plant indicating the former point of attachment of a part, esp a leaf
Origin of cicatrix
1Derived forms of cicatrix
- cicatricial (ˌsɪkəˈtrɪʃəl), adjective
- cicatricose (sɪˈkætrɪˌkəʊs, ˈsɪkə-), adjective
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