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Cicatrix   Listen
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Cicatrix  n.  (pl. cicatrices)  (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.






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... obliterates the capillaries, until at the end of two, three, or four weeks both vessels and cells have almost entirely disappeared, and the original wound is occupied by cicatricial tissue. In course of time this tissue becomes consolidated, and the cicatrix undergoes a certain ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix; footstep, footmark[obs3], footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste[obs3]. monument, hatchment[obs3], slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk, pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento &c. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



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