Cicatrix

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cicatrix \Ci*ca"trix\, n.; pl. {Cicatrices}. [L.] (Med.)
     The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity
     and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which
     subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cicatrix
       n : a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured
           tissue [syn: {scar}, {cicatrice}]
       [also: {cicatrices} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "cicatrix":
     birthmark, blackhead, blaze, bleb, blemish, blister, blotch, brand,
     bulla, caste mark, check, checkmark, comedo, crack, crater, craze,
     cut, dapple, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity,
     discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dot,
     earmark, engraving, fault, flaw, fleck, flick, freckle, gash,
     graving, hack, hemangioma, hickey, jot, keloid, kink, lentigo,
     macula, mark, marking, milium, mole, mottle, needle scar, nevus,
     nick, notch, patch, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot,
     port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, puncture, pustule, rift,
     scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching,
     sebaceous cyst, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot,
     stain, stigma, strawberry mark, sty, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick,
     tittle, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart,
     watermark, weal, welt, wen, whitehead