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cicatrixes

cicatrixes is the plural 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

Questions about cicatrixes

What is cicatrixes the plural of?
Cicatrixes is the plural of cicatrix.

Words near cicatrixes in the dictionary

  1. cicatrised
  2. cicatrises
  3. cicatrising
  4. cicatrisive
  5. cicatrix
  6. cicatrixes
  7. cicatrizant
  8. cicatrizants
  9. cicatrizate
  10. cicatrizated
  11. cicatrizates

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