cicatrix
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 8
/ˈsɪ.kəˌtɹɪks/
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/ˈsɪ.kəˌtɹɪks/ · /sɪˈkeɪ.tɹɪks/
Definition of cicatrix
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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...”
“He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix.”
“Past the mountains, Ellay now lay looking scratchy and scarred, a hatchmarked cicatrix on the dusty earth, livid in the threatening light.”
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Etymology
From Latin cicatrix.
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