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cicatrice

cicatrice is the alternative form of cicatrix.

Meaning of cicatrix

Noun

cicatrix (plural cicatrixes or cicatrices)

  1. A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).
    • 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...1853, John C. Cobden, The White Slaves of England, Cincinnati: Derby, page 33

Forms of cicatrice

pluralcicatrices

Origin of cicatrice

Borrowed from Latin cicatrix.

Questions about cicatrice

What is cicatrice the alternative form of?
Cicatrice is the alternative form of cicatrix.

Words near cicatrice in the dictionary

  1. cicale
  2. cicales
  3. Cicalese
  4. Cicaleses
  5. cicatrical
  6. cicatrice
  7. cicatrices
  8. cicatricial
  9. cicatricle
  10. cicatricles
  11. cicatricose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cicatrice (page history and authors); cicatrix (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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