'Cicatrix' definitions:
Definition of 'cicatrix'
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Definition of 'Cicatrix'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'cicatrix'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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