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cicatrix

[sik-uh-triks, si-kay-triks] / ˈsɪk ə trɪks, sɪˈkeɪ trɪks /




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She remembers the painful transitions to spring, the sea grapes and the rains, her skin a cicatrix.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

However, save for a cicatrix to mark the trifling occurrence, he was unharmed.

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

The softened mass is finally absorbed, and the walls of the cyst, or capsule around it, gradually collapse and form a cicatrix.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Such healing is prepared for and carried out very thoroughly in the case of falling leaves and cast branches, the plane of separation being covered by a cicatrix of cork.

From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward

Epithelioma of the scalp may originate in relation to a wart, an ulcerated wen or sebaceous adenoma, or the cicatrix of a burn.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.

From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012

Its cicatrices on the soft palate are always a source of inconvenience, partly in swallowing, partly in speaking.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Posterior half of nasal septum, right side, showing cicatrices.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

In the softer skin if pigmented the cicatrices are white and frequently remain so for about a year, when the pigment returns.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

Anaplerosis, an′a-plē-rō′sis, n. the filling up of a deficiency, esp. in medicine: the filling up of parts that have been destroyed, as in wounds, cicatrices, &c.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various


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