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cicatrices

cicatrices is the plural of cicatrix.

cicatrices is the plural of cicatrice.

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

Questions about cicatrices

What is cicatrices the plural of?
Cicatrices is the plural of cicatrix.

Words near cicatrices in the dictionary

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

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