Meaning of CICATRIX
| Pronunciation: | | 'sikutriks
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| | Definition: | | [n] a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue |
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| | Synonyms: | | cicatrice, scar |
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| | See Also: | | callus, cheloid, keloid, sword-cut, symptom, vaccination | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ci*ca"trix\, n.; pl. {Cicatrices}. [L.] (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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| | Related Terms: | | birthmark, blackhead, blaze, bleb, blemish, blister, blotch, brand, bulla, caste mark, check, checkmark, comedo, crack, crater, craze, cut, dapple, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dot, earmark, engraving, fault, flaw, fleck, flick, freckle, gash, graving, hack, hemangioma, hickey, jot, keloid, kink, lentigo, macula, mark, marking, milium, mole, mottle, needle scar, nevus, nick, notch, patch, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, puncture, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sebaceous cyst, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, sty, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, watermark, weal, welt, wen, whitehead |
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