CICATRIX (cicatrices)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cicatrices   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cicatrix mean? 

• CICATRIX (noun)
  The noun CICATRIX has 1 sense:

1. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

  Familiarity information: CICATRIX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CICATRIX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cicatrice; cicatrix; scar

Hypernyms ("cicatrix" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cicatrix"):

callus (bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone)

cheloid; keloid (raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair)

pockmark (a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease)

sword-cut (a scar from a cut made by a sword)

vaccination (the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine)

Derivation:

cicatrise; cicatrize (form a scar, after an injury)

 Context examples 

The regression of the lesions leaves pitting cicatrices but no other known sequelae.

(Multiple Self Healing Epithelioma of Ferguson-Smith, NCI Thesaurus)