What does cicatrix mean?

Definitions for cicatrix
ˈsɪk ə trɪks, sɪˈkeɪ trɪks; ˈsɪk ə trɪs; ˌsɪk əˈtraɪ sizci·ca·trix

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scar, cicatrix, cicatricenoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. cicatrixnoun

    A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CICATRICE, CICATRIXnoun

    Etymology: cicatrix, Latin.

    One captain Spurio with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

    Lean but upon a rush
    The cicatrice and capable impressure
    Thy palm some moment keeps. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

ChatGPT

  1. cicatrix

    A cicatrix is a scar that results from the formation of fibrous tissue as a wound heals, typically from surgery, injury, or a disease on the skin or on a body tissue. It can also refer to a mark or trace of a healed wound, lesion, or damage in a plant tissue.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cicatrixnoun

    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

  2. Etymology: [L.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cicatrix

    sik-ā′triks, or sik′a-triks, n. the scar over a wound after it is healed—also Cic′atrice: scar in the bark of a tree: (Shak.) mark, impression.—ns. Cicatric′ula, the germinating point in the yolk of an egg; Cicatrisā′tion, the process of healing over.—v.t. Cic′atrise, to help the formation of a cicatrix on a wound or ulcer: to scar.—v.i. to heal. [Fr.,—L. cicatrix, a scar.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Cicatrix

    The fibrous tissue that replaces normal tissue during the process of WOUND HEALING.

Entomology

  1. Cicatrix

    a scar: an elevated, rigid spot.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cicatrix in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cicatrix in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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